Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton).: What will he do with it? Part 3. Lucretia
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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What will he do with it? pt.3. to which is added Lucretia or, the children of night
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Modern English Biography
Author: Frederic Boase
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic
Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030408663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030408663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
An English Village
Author: Richard Jefferies
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
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Illustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday
Author: McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Catalogue of the Library of the Reform Club
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of the New York Free Circulating Library
Author: New York Free Circulating Library. Ottendorfer Branch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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The Life of Edward Bulwer
Author: Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton Earl of Lytton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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