Gothic Romantic category: 300 books

These novels are H.P. Lovecraft earliest writing 1897-1908. H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Alchemist (1908) The Beast In The Cave (1905)

This wonderful collection of books will bring adults back to their childhoods and create many happy memories for middle and young adult readers. This is a perfect collection for a long journey, rainy days, or for any quiet moments. Includes an active table of contents so you can use your NOOK's GOTO...

An American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents A Cigarette-Maker's Romance (1894) Saracinesca (1887) Man Overboard! (1903) The Little City of Hope...

Table of Contents - The American The Turn of the Screw The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 The Wings of the Dove, Volume 2 of 2 Daisy Miller The Ambassadors The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) What Maisie Knew The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story in which...

The Gothic has taken a revolutionary turn in this century. Today’s Gothic has fashioned its monsters and devils into heroes and angels and is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture. Nelson argues that this mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.

Contents Hushed Up! (1911) The Intriguers (1921) Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo (1921) The Mysterious Three (1915) The Mystery of the Green Ray (1915) Number 70 Berlin (1916) The Hunchback of Westminster (1904) The Mysterious Three (1915) The Lost Million (1913) The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story...

Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of...

“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ..." The summer of 1816 was by all accounts a cold and wet one. After the April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa, part of what is now Indonesia, global temperatures dropped and a rainy, monsoon-like...

Vacillating between the longue durée and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and distant reading, literary historians operate with such disparate senses of what the term "history†? means that the field risks compartmentalization...

This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupré's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupré philosophically...

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological...

The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the...

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance. Through readings of authors such...

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, first published in 1926, presents the great artistic and literary innovations of the Romantic movement according to an often overlooked and unacknowledged definition of ‘Romanticism’, which is of particular relevance in the consideration...