In a Glass Darkly II. The Room in the Dragon Volant
In a Glass Darkly II. The Room in the Dragon Volant

Author: Le Fanu J.S.

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published:

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 552107127X

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Filled with mystery and gothic horror elements, “The Room in the Dragon Volant” takes place in post-Napoleonic Wars France. Young Englishman Richard Beckett falls in love with the mysterious Countess. To be closer to her, he takes a room in the “Dragon Volant” inn, which has a rather nasty reputation.

In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3
In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Publisher: Publio Kiadó Kft.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9633810086

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The curious case which I am about to place before you, is referred to, very pointedly, and more than once, in the extraordinary Essay upon the drugs of the Dark and the Middle Ages, from the pen of Doctor Hesselius. This Essay he entitles "Mortis Imago," and he, therein, discusses the Vinum letiferum, the Beatifica, the Somnus Angelorum, the Hypnus Sagarum, the Aqua Thessalliæ, and about twenty other infusions and distillations, well known to the sages of eight hundred years ago, and two of which are still, he alleges, known to the fraternity of thieves, and, among them, as police-office inquiries sometimes disclose to this day, in practical use.

In a Glass Darkly
In a Glass Darkly

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-03-18

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 3382137186

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

The Fantastic and European Gothic
The Fantastic and European Gothic

Author: Matthew Gibson

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0708326919

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This book examines the rise of Fantastic literature on the continent in the nineteenth century, the development of a European Gothic and the influence which this exerted on British writers. By examining writers like Nodier, Hoffmann, Gautier, Féval and Stevenson, the book argues firstly how their writings subvert entirely the view of the Fantastic accepted by Todorov, Punter and others, to show that it is the reversal of a pre-Enlightenment, spiritual world-view which causes terror in these works, and further demonstrates that Gothic novels frequently use allusion and anachronism to portray a cyclical view of history opposed to that of Scott.

The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

Author: Scott Brewster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 1317288939

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The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.

God and the Gothic
God and the Gothic

Author: Alison Milbank

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0198824467

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Alison Milbank provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the monasteries, now seen as usurping authorities.