The Shilling Shockers
Author: Peter Haining
Publisher:
Published: 1979-01
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780312717346
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Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 17971830
Author: Franz J. Potter
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2021-01-15
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1786836718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study breaks new ground surveying the origins of the Gothic chapbook, its publishers and authors, in order to establish conclusively the impact these pamphlets had on the development of the Gothic genre. Considered the illegitimate offspring of the Gothic novel, the lowly chapbook flooded the market in the late eighteenth century, creating a separate and distinct secondary market for tales of terror. The trade was driven by a handful of individuals who were booksellers and dealers, circulating library proprietors, stationers, and small publishers – what they produced were more than four hundred chapbooks, bluebooks and shilling shockers containing Gothic tales from magazines, redactions of popular novels, extractions of entire inset tales, and original tales of terror. This book responds to the urgent and pressing need to contextualise the Gothic chapbook in ascertaining a more concise and comprehensive view of the entire Gothic genre.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2016-01-18
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1473378974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis early work by Fergus Hume was originally published in 1886 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab' is a tricky tale set in Australia and is Hume's most famous crime novel. Fergusson Wright Hume was born on 8th July 1859 in England, the second son of Dr. James Hume. The family migrated to New Zealand where Fergus was enrolled at Otago Boys' High School, and later continued his legal and literary studies at the University of Otago. Hume returned to England in 1888 where he resided in London for a few years until moving to the Essex countryside. There he published over 100 novels, mainly in the mystery fiction genre, though none had the success of his début work.
Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature
Author: William Hughes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0810872285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an extensive chronology and an introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Includes entries on major writers, and works of geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction.
Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1438109113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.
British Invasion and Spy Literature, 1871–1918
Author: Danny Laurie-Fletcher
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-28
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 3030038521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses. This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth century and developed into a clearly recognised form during the Edwardian period (1901-1914). By looking at the origins and evolution of invasion literature, and to a lesser extent detective literature, up to the end of World War I, Danny Laurie-Fletcher utilises fiction as a window into the mind-set of British society. There is a focus on the political arguments embedded within the texts, which mirrored debates in wider British society that took place before and during World War I – debates about military conscription, immigration, spy scares, the fear of British imperial decline, and the rise of Germany. These debates and topics are examined to show what influence they had on the creation of the intelligence services, MI5 and MI6, and how foreigners were perceived in society.
Romanticism and Postmodernism
Author: Edward Larrissy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-08-28
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521642729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts, from the philosophical and ideological abstractions of literary theory to the thematic and formal preoccupations of contemporary fiction and poetry. Though the precise meaning of the Romantic legacy is contested, it remains stubbornly difficult to move beyond. This collection of essays by prominent critics and literary theorists was first published in 1999, and explores the continuing impact of Romanticism on a variety of authors and genres, including John Barth, William Gibson, and John Ashbery, while writers from the Romantic and Victorian period include Wordsworth, Byron and Emily Brontë. Many critics have assumed that the forms and modes of feeling associated with the Romantic period continued to influence the cultural history of the the first half of the twentieth century. This was the first book to consider the mutual impact of postmodernism and Romanticism.
I Can Remember Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Rosaline Orme Masson
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal memories about Stevenson from various members and friends of The Robert Louis Stevenson Club.
The Phantom Table
Author: Ann Banfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-02-15
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780521034036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirginia Woolf identified the influence on her work of 'the Cambridge Apostles', the philosophical society which counted G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and much of male Bloomsbury among its members, as one more 'capable of description' than 'the influence of my mother'. In this major study of Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time, Ann Banfield subjects that influence to a full treatment. The theory of knowledge Moore and Russell formulated, Banfield argues, profoundly affected Woolf's conception of reality, as it did Roger Fry's theory of Post-Impressionism, one source for Woolf's transformations of philosophical principles into aesthetic ones. The Phantom Table is a magisterial account of Woolf's engagement with this remarkable trinity of thinkers: Moore, Russell, Fry. It revises the epistemology of modernism, reconceiving the relation between realism and formalism to account for Woolf's dual reality of sense impressions and logical forms.
