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Culture and dignity Culture and dignity Laura Nader "In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship betwe… OL16626967W
The Gothic world of Anne Rice The Gothic world of Anne Rice Gary Hoppenstand,Ray B. Browne This anthology argues for the serious study of the literary oeuvre of Anne Rice, a major figure in today's popular literature. The essays assert that Rice expands the conventions of the horror genre'… OL18168343W
The Gothic other The Gothic other Ruth Bienstock Anolik,Douglas L. Howard x, 310 p. ; 23 cm OL18246645W
Gothic romanticism Gothic romanticism Tom Duggett "Gothic Romanticism relates architecture, politics, and literary form to read afresh the works of the Lake Poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. Reading a wide range of canonical and lesser-read… OL18351402W
The Castle of Otranto The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the… OL183675W
The Gothic The Gothic Nick Groom The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and so… OL19764613W
The king of the castle The king of the castle Phil Carr,Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert,Virginia Holt Dallas Lawson is determined to continue her dead father's work, but she finds her reception at Chateau Gaillard, where she is restoring the paintings, less than welcoming. She also finds that the eni… OL3931519W
Cryptomimesis Cryptomimesis Carla Jodey Castricano "Jodey Castricano develops the theory of cryptomimesis, a term devised to accommodate the convergence of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and certain "Gothic" stylistic, formal, and thematic patterns and … OL5781623W
Gothic & Gender Gothic & Gender Donna Heiland Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic and Gender offers a historically in… OL6032200W
Spindrift Spindrift Phyllis A. Whitney **From the jacket** Inside the wall of a palatial Newport estate, a violent struggle was beginning. Christy Moreland had come back to Spindrift determined to uncover the truth behind the mansion's… OL60479W
The Evil Image The Evil Image Lord Byron,Charlotte Brontë,A. E. Coppard,John Keats,Nora Jaffe,Thomas Hardy,Daniel Defoe,Washington Irving,Henry James,William Butler Yeats,Stephen King,William Faulkner,Stephen Crane,Emily Brontë,Charles Dickens,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Robert Louis Stevenson,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Patricia L. Skarda,Edgar Allan Poe,Eudora Welty,Flannery O'Connor,Christina Georgina Rosetti,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Mary Alcock,Ann Radcliffe,Montague Rhodes James,John Aikin,John William Polidori,Anne Sexton,Sir Walter Scott xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredi… OL8200891W
Across a Starlit Sea:(Chandlers of Highclyffe Hall #2) Across a Starlit Sea:(Chandlers of Highclyffe Hall #2) Rebecca Brandewyne She was caught in a whirlwind of passion...Between two men, two brothers, and two fates As the wind tossed her tangled locks, Laura Prescott looked out into a future as bleak as the savage moors. Th… OL999448W