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A Taste for Treason

The Letter That Smashed a Nazi Spy Ring

by Andrew Jeffrey ...

A "fascinating, gripping, and expertly researched" true story of WWII-era espionage "told with all the drama and panache of a spy thriller" (Michael Smith, author of The Secret Station X).Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of espionage. ... Read more

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A "fascinating, gripping, and expertly researched" true story of WWII-era espionage "told with all the drama and panache of a spy thriller" (Michael Smith, author of The Secret Station X).Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of espionage.
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Collective Memory & the Historical Past

by Jeffrey Andrew Barash ...

"Barash seeks to safeguard history from mythology . . . deep and wide-ranging [yet] the author's prose is clear and accessible. Highly recommended." — ChoiceThere is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has ... Read more

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"Barash seeks to safeguard history from mythology . . . deep and wide-ranging [yet] the author's prose is clear and accessible. Highly recommended." — ChoiceThere is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has
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The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story

by Scott Brewster, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...

Series series Routledge Introductions to American Literature
This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and stylistic innovations of literary ghost stories in the United States, and the ghost story’s ... Read more

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This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and stylistic innovations of literary ghost stories in the United States, and the ghost story’s
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Disney Gothic

Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse

by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Murray Leeder, Terry Lindvall, Jay Bamber, Carl H. Sederholm, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Gwyneth Peaty, Kevin J. Wetmore0, J.S. Mackley1, Nancy Johnson-Hunt2, Antonio Sanna3, Christy Tidwell4, Joan Ormrod5, Angelique Nairn6, Simon Bacon7, Blair Speakman8 ...

Series series Research in Horror Studies
Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds ... Read more

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Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds
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The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition

A Somewhat Cheeky but Exceedingly Useful Introduction to Academic Writing

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...

Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments. Writing an essay is a task that can strike fear into a student’s heart, but performing an experiment licenses creativity and doesn’t presume that one knows the outcome from the start.The Mad Scientist’s Guide covers the kinds of ... Read more

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Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments. Writing an essay is a task that can strike fear into a student’s heart, but performing an experiment licenses creativity and doesn’t presume that one knows the outcome from the start.The Mad Scientist’s Guide covers the kinds of
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The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition - MLA 2021 Update

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...

Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments. Writing an essay is a task that can strike fear into a student’s heart, but performing an experiment licenses creativity and doesn’t presume that one knows the outcome from the start.The Mad Scientist’s Guide covers the kinds of ... Read more

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Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments. Writing an essay is a task that can strike fear into a student’s heart, but performing an experiment licenses creativity and doesn’t presume that one knows the outcome from the start.The Mad Scientist’s Guide covers the kinds of
... Read more
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century

by Carina Bissett, M. Keith Booker, Kevin Corstorphine, Ian Fetters, Gemma Files, Teresa Fitzpatrick, Jacob Floyd, Neil Jackson, Mikel J. Koven, Carlos Littles, Natasha C. Marchini, Joan Passey, Gwyneth Peaty, Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angela Marie Smith, Erik Steinskog, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Maisha Wester, Brandon R. Grafius, Kevin J. Wetmore,Jr., John Edgar Browning, Laura R. Kremmel ...

Series series Research in Horror Studies
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and ... Read more

$105.29 USD

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and
... Read more
Gothic Things

Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...

SHORTLISTED, THE ALLAN LLOYD SMITH PRIZE FOR BEST MONOGRAPHOffering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on “ominous matter” and “thing power.” In chapters attending to ... Read more

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SHORTLISTED, THE ALLAN LLOYD SMITH PRIZE FOR BEST MONOGRAPHOffering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on “ominous matter” and “thing power.” In chapters attending to
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A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work; situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in ... Read more

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Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work; situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in
... Read more
Giving the Devil His Due

Satan and Cinema

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Regina M. Hansen, Simon Bacon, Katherine A. Fowkes, David Hauka, Russ Hunter, Barry C. Knowlton, Eloise R. Knowlton, Murray Leeder0, R. Barton Palmer1, Carl H. Sederholm2, David Sterritt3, J.P. Telotte4 ...

**Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (**Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires, reflecting ... Read more

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**Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (**Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires, reflecting
... Read more
Heidegger's Being and Time

Critical Essays

by Karin de Boer, Charles Guignon, William McNeill, Günter Figal, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Jeffrey Andrew Bara, Jean Grondin, Graeme Nicholson, Theodore Kisiel, Steven Crowell, Dieter Thomä ...

Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays provides a variety of recent studies of Heidegger's most important work. Twelve prominent scholars, representing diverse nationalities, generations, and interpretive approaches deal with general methodological and ontological questions, particular issues in Heidegger's text, and the relation between Being and Time and Heidegger's later thought. All of ... Read more

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Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays provides a variety of recent studies of Heidegger's most important work. Twelve prominent scholars, representing diverse nationalities, generations, and interpretive approaches deal with general methodological and ontological questions, particular issues in Heidegger's text, and the relation between Being and Time and Heidegger's later thought. All of
... Read more
Scare Tactics

Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...

Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary ... Read more

$27.89 USD

Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary
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