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  • The Plea Of The Midsummer Fairies, Hero And Leander, Lycus The Centaur And Other Poems
    Thomas Hood
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,31 €

  • Rousseau And Romanticism
    Irving Babbitt
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,12 €

  • Plagues, Apocalypses and Bug-Eyed Monsters
    Heather Urbanski
    Speculative fiction--both science fiction and fantasy--reflects, among other things, the fears of the culture that created it, contributing (perhaps unconsciously) to our efforts to prevent our fears from coming true. While the names and media change over time, the themes of speculative fiction have a long history. Nineteenth century works such as Frankenstein and The Invisible...
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    42,71 €

  • Shadows and Chivalry
    Jeff McInnis
    McInnis studies the influence of George MacDonald on C.S. Lewis. Beginning with the authors' early experiences of suffering and their literary reactions to it, McInnis shows how MacDonald's writings helped transform Lewis from an imaginative doubter and escapist into a believer in the reality of God and his goodness. While other books have only mentioned the fact that Lewis cal...
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    40,85 €

  • The Gospel According to Science Fiction
    Gabriel McKee
    In this thorough and engaging book, Gabriel McKee explores the inherent theological nature of science fiction, using illustrations from television shows, literature, and films. Science fiction, he believes, helps us understand not only who we are but who we will become. McKee organizes his chapters around theological themes, using illustrations from authors such as Isaac Asimov...
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    23,31 €

  • Murder 101
    Edward J J Rielly
    This collection of essays examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight into how the reader may apply such strategies to his or her own courses. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the essays cover teaching in the areas of literature, law, history, sociology, anthropology, architecture, gender studies, cultural studies, and literary theory. ...
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    57,34 €

  • Milton, Spenser and the Chronicles of Narnia
    Elizabeth Baird Hardy
    In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of children's stories that became The Chronicles of Narnia. The now vastly popular Chronicles are a widely known testament to the religious and moral principles that Lewis embraced in his later life. What many readers and viewers do not know about the Chronicles is that a close reading of the seven-book series rev...
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    42,97 €

  • Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller
    Claire Squires
    Philip Pullman is one of the most commercially and critically successful British authors of the past decade. With a writing career extending back to the early 1970s, Pullman’s great achievement has been in the publication of the His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights (1995; US title The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000). With these nove...
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    34,20 €

  • Voyages of Imagination
    Jeff Ayers
    Through four decades, five television series comprising over seven hundred episodes, ten feature films, and an animated series, fandom’s thirst for more Star Trek stories has been unquenchable. From the earliest short-story adaptations by James Blish in the 1960s, followed by the first original Star Trek novels during the seventies, and on throughout the eighties, nineties, and...
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    50,42 €

  • Ursula K. Le Guin
    Graham Murphy / Susan Bernardo
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    100,88 €

  • Tolkien and Modernity 1
    The current volume, being the first of two dedicated to ’Tolkien and Modernity’, grew out of the wish to further the exploration of Tolkien as a ’contemporary writer’, i.e. an author whose literary creations can be seen as a response to the challenges of the modern world. It comprises papers that focus on the following themes: Tolkien and the 20th century, feminist theory, time...
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    30,58 €

  • Tolkien and Modernity 2
    The current volume, being the second of two dedicated to ’Tolkien and Modernity’, grew out of the wish to further the exploration of Tolkien as a ’contemporary writer’, i.e. an author whose literary creations can be seen as a response to the challenges of the modern world. It comprises papers that focus on four broad themes: love, time, heroism, and style. Although one could ar...
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    30,42 €

  • Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture
    Patrick R. O’Malley / Patrick RO'Malley / Patrick RO’Malley
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    108,52 €

  • The Invention of Evening
    Christopher R. Miller / Christopher RMiller
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    91,63 €

  • Origins of the American Detective Story
    Leroy Lad Panek
    Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things chan...
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    42,82 €

  • Not Your Mother’s Vampire
    Deborah Wilson Overstreet
    Not Your Mother’s Vampire analyzes twenty current young adult vampire novels and also addresses Buffy the Vampire Slayer-all vampire representations aimed at younger audiences. The book’s structure includes an overview of vampire scholarship, an analysis of vampire characters (featuring an exploration of vampire conventions and vampires and sexuality), an analysis of human char...
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    79,59 €

  • Art in the Blood
    Craig McDonald
    James Ellroy, Dan Brown, Ian Rankin, George Pelacanoes, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson . . . the roster of writers interviewed in these pages includes those who have won Edgar, Shamus, Anthony and Macavity awards. The interviews were conducted in person, or by phone, or both. Significantly, none of the interviews were placed before the authors for approval, massagi...
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    33,34 €

  • James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux
    Barbara Bogue
    When he created the character Dave Robicheaux, author James Lee Burke lent the New Orleans homicide detective a few of his own characteristics: a daughter named Alafair, a lifetime struggle with alcohol, his Roman Catholic faith, and his love for fishing and the outdoors. On the other hand, Robicheaux is portrayed as a veteran of the Vietnam war, something Burke never experienc...
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    42,74 €

  • Main Currents In Nineteenth Century Literature V5
    George Brandes
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,48 €

  • Tales Of The Fairies And Of The Ghost World, Collected From Oral Tradition In South-West Munster
    Jeremiah Curtin
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,31 €

  • Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages
    Stephen Cain / Tim Conley
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    119,76 €

  • Alien Theory
    Patricia Monk
    From the early days of pulp magazines to contemporary works of science fiction, the subject of the alien has been a fertile and enduring-if not also the most vital-element of the genre. ...
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    107,60 €

  • Masterpieces of American Romantic Literature
    Melissa McFarland Pennell
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    77,37 €

  • Lesbian Detective Fiction
    Phyllis M Betz
    This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of the genre. As this book points out, such fiction reveals the lesbian’s increasing visibility in the wider society. Nevertheless, it can still be difficult to find a complete representation of lesbian life in mainstream literature. Often the best place...
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    57,54 €

  • The Supernatural In Modern English Fiction
    Dorothy Scarborough
    The Supernatural In Modern English Fiction is a literary analysis book written by Dorothy Scarborough. It explores the use of supernatural elements in modern English fiction, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book discusses the role of the supernatural in popular works of fiction by authors such as Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, and Arthur Machen, as well as...
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    37,79 €

  • Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings
    Henry Maudsley
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    23,94 €

  • The Fall of the House of Poe
    Phillip L Roderick
    Why was Edgar Allan Poe unable to form either emotional or sexual bonds with the women in his life? Why did he worship at the grave of his friend’s mother-a woman he may have loved but who he could have never been intimate with? Why did he marry his 13 year-old cousin and what impact did her tragic death have on his literary creations? Why do the female characters in his short ...
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    14,00 €

  • Romantic Cities Of Provence
    Mona Caird
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,48 €

  • Four British Fantasists
    Charles Butler
    Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential of the generation of fantasy writes who rose to prominence in the 'second Golden Age' of children’s literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. ...
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    100,89 €

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter
    Francis Ingledew
    Francis Ingledew’s book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III’s foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter. As well as providing the basis for a thorough reinterpretation of the poem’s purposes and meanings, this argument dates to the mid-...
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    56,93 €


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