The Forest of Valancourt Or, The Haunt of the Banditti
The Forest of Valancourt Or, The Haunt of the Banditti

Author: Peter Middleton Darling

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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"The Forest of Valancourt is the story of young Lucien, who sets out to find his origins and prove himself worthy of the love of the young countess Adelaide. But he gets more than he bargained for when he saves the life of a man who proves to be his father, and who denounces Lucien to the Inquisition! Imprisoned in a dungeon and threatened with horrible torture, can Lucien escape his terrible fate and discover the truth behind his father's past? The Forest of Valancourt is the first title in a new set of limited edition hardcover reprints of the rarest of Gothic novels. While our Gothic Classics series reprints rare titles in paperback editions, these limited edition hardcovers are the rarest of the rare, books of which only one or two copies exist in the world. Only one copy of The Forest of Valancourt has survived; that copy is held in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. The Valancourt Books edition is newly typeset from that copy in an attractive cloth-bound edition with dust jacket, giving modern readers the opportunity to own a copy of this extremely rare work."--Publisher's website.

The Gothic Child
The Gothic Child

Author: Margarita Georgieva

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1137306076

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Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their work.

Space, Haunting, Discourse
Space, Haunting, Discourse

Author: Maria Holmgren Troy

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-05-27

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1443811505

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This anthology reflects the current interest in the concept of space as a revitalising approach to literary, social, mental, political and discursive phenomena. The contributions, which examine novels, films, art, and cultures, invite the reader to consider the function of space in human constructions as symbolic representation, analytical tool, discursive strategy and haunting effect. In a wider context they demonstrate the extent to which spatiality impacts on our lives and has ethical, political, historical and cultural implications. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines in the Humanties: Literature, Photography, Art, Human Geography, Ethnic Studies, and Cultural Studies. Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö are Associate Professors in English Literature at Karlstad University, Sweden

The Romance of the Forest
The Romance of the Forest

Author: Ann Ward Radcliffe

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 143447156X

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'The Romance of the Forest' evokes a world drenched in both horror and natural splendor, beset with abductions and imprisonments, and centered upon the frequently terrified but still resourceful and determined heroine Adeline.

The Tale of Terror
The Tale of Terror

Author: Edith Birkhead

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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A history of the 'thriller' from myth and folk-tale through Walpole and Mrs Radcliffe to Poe and Le Fanu.

The Gothic Novel 1790–1830
The Gothic Novel 1790–1830

Author: Ann B. Tracy

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0813164796

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A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels—such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide. The novels described, including those by such writers as Charlotte Dacre, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Regina Maria Roche, Charles Maturin, and Mary Shelley, are for the most part out of print and circulation and are unavailable except in rare book rooms. Thus this book provides the researcher with ready access to information that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.