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  • The Riddle of Netta Fornario

    The Green Ray

    by Clive Bloom ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    On a bleak November morning in 1929, the body of a woman was discovered on a hillside on Iona in the Inner Hebrides. It soon became a gothic mystery. The woman was Norah Fornario, who called herself Netta or used her magical name of Mac Tyler. She had been on the island conjuring the Green Ray in order to contact the Sidhe, the human-sized fairies that she believed lived in the hillside. This is ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • London Uncanny

    A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction

    by Clive Bloom ...
    From Kensington to the East End, under candlelight, gas lamp and then neon signs, London is both a bustling physical metropolis and a stirring psychic encounter. The most depraved depictions of London in fiction, film, poetry, television and theatre have irrevocably merged with the reality of its dark history, creating a phantasmagoria defined by murder, vice and the unnatural. In this panoptic ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Gothic London

    Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers

    by Clive Bloom ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and occult organizations and individuals. It is also a book filled with the uncertainties and otherworldliness of the London landscape. It contains whispers and rituals, strange apparitions, apocalyptic visions, alien voices, dark shadows, vampiric dreamscapes, and uncanny vanishings; ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins

    Edited by Clive Bloom ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole’s house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic

    Edited by Clive Bloom ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900

    by Clive Bloom ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK. This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading including the rise of Black, Asian and LGBTQIA+ publishing; the continuing importance of certain genres and up to date trends in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic

    Edited by Clive Bloom ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    “Simply put, there is absolutely nothing on the market with the range of ambition of this strikingly eclectic collection of essays. Not only is it impossible to imagine a more comprehensive view of the subject, most readers – even specialists in the subject – will find that there are elements of the Gothic genre here of which they were previously unaware.”- Barry Forshaw, Author of British Gothic ... Read more

    $287.99 USD

  • Literature and Culture in Modern Britain

    Volume Three: 1956 - 1999

    Edited by Clive Bloom, Gary Day ...
    British culture has changed almost beyond recognition since 1956. Angry young men have been displaced by Yuppies, Elvis by the Spice Girls, and meat and two veg by continental cuisine. What is more, as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales showed, the British are now more famous for a trembling lower lip than a stiff upper one.This volume, the last in the series, examines the transformations in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Literature and Culture in Modern Britain: Volume 1

    1900-1929

    Edited by Clive Bloom ...
    The first in a three-volume sequence, this book covers the period between 1900 and 1929, providing a perceptive and thorough analysis of British literature within its historical, cultural and artistic context. It identifies the crucial, interwoven relationships between literature and the visual arts, modern poetry, popular fiction, journalism, cinema, music and radio. Much factual detail and a ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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    In recent years the term "psychogeography" has been used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political application in the work of Guy ... Read more

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  • History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914

    by Jarlath Killeen ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914 is a detailed and accessible study of Gothic literature in the nineteenth century. It examines how the themes and tropes associated with the early Gothic novel were diffused widely in many different genres in the Victorian period, including the ghost story, the regional novel, children's literature and the realist novel. It looks in particular at ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

    Edited by Jerrold E. Hogle ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted ... Read more

    $31.99 USD