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  • Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age

    by Ruth Heholt, Mariaconcetta Costantini ...
    Series series Elements in the Gothic
    Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age explores masculinity and the Gothic in the literature of the long nineteenth century. In recent criticism masculinity in the Gothic is most usually discussed as being fractured, unstable, and threatened. Gothic Masculinities examines this fragmentation of gendered identity, but it also considers other types of arguments and representations of men in Gothic ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Folk Horror

    New Global Pathways

    Edited by Dawn Keetley, Ruth Heholt ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment. This study sets out to rethink the assumptions that have guided critical writing on the genre in the face of such expansions, with chapters ... Read more

    $28.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics

    by Ruth Heholt ...
    Series series Among the Victorians and Modernists
    This is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This monograph offers a reassessment of her major works, arguing that her writing is prescient. Best known today for her collection of "real" ghost tales The ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction

    by Ruth Heholt, Tanya Krzywinska ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Impact
    Cornwall as Strange Fiction is focused on written and visual culture that is made in, or made about, Cornwall and where there is affinity with Gothic. Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic. In 1998, Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik coined the term ‘Cornish ... Read more

    $22.69 USD

  • Ghosts and the Gothic

    Edited by Ruth Heholt, Joanne Ella Parsons ...
    Series series International Gothic Series
    Ghosts have long been connected with the Gothic, but until now there has not been a book dedicated to the subject. This collection examines ghostly presences (and absences) in both classic and lesser-known Gothic texts from the beginning of the genre to the present in a global context. Arguing that the undead, in the form of ghosts, are intrinsic to the Gothic mode, essays in the collection ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Empty House, and Other Ghost Stories

    by Algernon Blackwood ...
    Series series Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy
    One of the most famous ghost stories, Blackwood's 'The Empty House' is a classic haunted house tale of terror. Now with a new introduction and biography.Algernon Blackwood, one of the founding fathers of modern ghost and horror stories, inspired generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Shirley Jackson and our very own Ramsey Campbell. Blackwood's 'The Empty House' is one of the most famous ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Gothic Britain

    Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles

    Edited by William Hughes, Ruth Heholt ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays in this volume interrogate the interplay of ideas and generic innovations generated in the spaces between the nominal kingdom and ... Read more

    $30.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Writing Men

    1689 to 1869

    Edited by Joanne Ella Parsons, Ruth Heholt ...
    Series series Historical Women's Writing
    This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. As men have written women so have women written men. Debate about how men have represented women in literature has a long and distinguished history; however, there has been much less examination of the ways in which women writers depict male characters. This is clearly a notable absence given the recent rise in interest ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Transmedia Creatures

    Frankenstein’s Afterlives

    by Lidia De Michelis, Eleanor Beal, Gino Roncaglia, Claire Nally, Claudia Gualtieri, Federico Meschini, Enrico Reggiani, Diego Saglia, Daniele Pio Buenza, Ruth Heholt, Andrew McInnes, Janet Larson ...
    On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The New Urban Gothic

    Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene

    Edited by Holly-Gale Millette, Ruth Heholt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, and inequality in contemporary fictions set in the urban space. Divided into three sections—Identities and Histories, Ruin and Residue, and Global Gothic—The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities, precarity and the ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Haunted Landscapes

    Super-Nature and the Environment

    Edited by Ruth Heholt, Niamh Downing ...
    Series series Place, Memory, Affect
    Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting must in some way always belong to the present: they must be felt. This collection of essays opens up new and compelling areas of debate around the ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Gothic Animals

    Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out

    Edited by Ruth Heholt, Melissa Edmundson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human animals, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theory, this book takes the Gothic genre into new territory ... Read more

    $116.09 USD