Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Comprising 30 essays written ...
Author: O'Malley, Patrick R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid...
Author: Watt, James Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt...
Author: Fletcher, Lisa Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lisa Fletcher moves the debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of speech-act and performativity theorists on everything from popular classics by ...
Author: Hill, Richard J. Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Picturing Scotland examines the genesis and production of the first author-approved illustrations for Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels in Scotland. Richard J. Hill shows that Scott, usually seen a...
Description: Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English drama...
Author: Regis, Pamela Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Pamela Regis argues that the romance novel, the most popular but least respected of literary genres, does not enslave women but celebrates their freedom and joy. Regis provides critics with an expande...
