Gothic Romantic category: 300 books
Love, On On
Stealing Romance On The Run
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Love, ON ON is a romantic comedy where a reclusive man meets a brave woman whose strength and courage inspires him to set out on an epic adventure. She sees in him the romantic hero and he sees in her the unyielding force of nature. Together, their love explodes in the toughest environments and harsh...
The Twilight Symbols
Motifs-Meanings-Messages
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
How well do you know the Twilight universe… really?In her famous four-book series The Twilight Saga, author Stephenie Meyer refers to myth, music, history, literature and more. She masks numerous symbols in her romantic vampire dreamscape. The Twilight Symbols is a rich A to Z guide of symbols in the...
Thomas De Quincey
New Theoretical and Critical Directions
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond necessitates a critical examination of De Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world have come together in this volume...
Global Romanticism
Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual...
by George Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1966. Despite the intense interest in Coleridge in the twentieth century, this book represents the first study of Coleridge’s poetry to be published in Britain. It is also the first to be based upon the conclusion that Coleridge’s greatness as a poet is a matter of achievement...
by Caroline Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a poet and satirist, as famous in his time for his love affairs and questionable morals as he was for his poetry. Looking beyond the scandal, Byron leaves us a body of work that proved crucial to the development of English poetry and provides a fascinating counterpoint to...
Coleridge and the Armoury of the Human Mind
Essays on his Prose Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic literature on the subject of his prose. They range from broad appraisals of Coleridge’s own critical practises; demonstrations of the fecundity of his autobiography, the...
Complete Write a Novel Course
Your complete guide to mastering the art of novel writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
LEARN HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL WITH THIS COMPLETE, PRACTICAL COURSE.
Designed to take you from the moment you first put pen to paper right through to the process of contacting publishers (or uploading an ebook file) and promoting your book, this is the most important book on writing that you'll...
Island Genres, Genre Islands
Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers. Through a focus on four key genres—crime fiction, thrillers, popular romance fiction, and fantasy fiction—Crane and Fletcher show that genre is fundamental...
Timely Voices
Romance Writing in English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis – an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones – English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing. Rethinking the resilience, purpose,...
by R. L. Brett
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
First published in 1969, this book provides a concise and helpful introduction to the terms ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’. Although they are generally associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the work begins with a discussion the history of these concepts which were also known to Aristotle, the...
by Donald Davie
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century.
Encompassing works by the likes of Alexander Pushkin, Sir Walter Scott, Adam Mickiewicz and James Fenimore Cooper,...
by Brenda Wineapple
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America's most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public.
As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson,...
by Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
A collection of the most fascinating essays, articles, and interpretations of bestselling author Anne Rice's complete works, by a variety of journalists and scholars. It includes a history of vampire literature, a professional dominatrix's examination of Rice's erotica, and a behind-the-scenes look...