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  • Industrial Gothic

    Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature

    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    This volume carves out a new area of study, the ‘industrial Gothic’, placing the genre in dialogue with the literature of the Industrial Revolution. The book explores a significant subset of transatlantic nineteenth-century literature that employs the tropes, themes and rhetoric of the Gothic to portray the real-life horrors of factory life, framing the Industrial Revolution as a site of Gothic ... Read more

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  • The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860

    Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic, novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts question the foundations of the Anglo-American justice system through their portrayals of criminal and judicial procedures and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Record, Document, Archive

    Constructing the South out of Region

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes ... Read more

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  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon

    The Factory Girl (1863)

    Edited by Bridget M. Marshall ...
    Series series Gothic Originals
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Factory Girl (1863) was a cheap serial intended for working-class readers. The sprawling plot centres on Laura Leslie and her daughter, Dora, who are the targets of a diverse cast of villains. After Laura’s tragic death, Dora and her adoptive mother start a new life working in a cotton mill, but Dora’s beauty attracts unwelcome attention, putting them in danger. Dora ... Read more

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  • Transnational Gothic

    Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century

    by Monika Elbert ...
    Offering a variety of critical approaches to late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a transnational view of the emergence and flowering of the Gothic. The essays expand on now well-known approaches to the Gothic (such as those that concentrate exclusively on race, gender, or nation) by focusing on international issues: religious traditions, social ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    The Tarzan Twins (Unabridged)

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    Dick and Doc aren't actual twins. They're technically cousins, being the sons of twin sisters. But having been born on the same day and looking and behaving nearly exactly alike, they certainly feel more like twins than most. On the way to visit their cousin Lord Greystoke, also known as Tarzan, King of the Apes, in the wilds of Africa, their train derails and they wander off into the jungle for a ... Read more

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    Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the ... Read more

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  • Delphi Dickensiana Volume I (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 4 - Delphi Series One
    In tribute to the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, Delphi Classics is pleased to introduce Dickensiana, a first of its kind e-compilation of period accounts of Dickens’s life and works, rare 19th and early 20th century books and articles about Dickens and Dickensian locales, reminiscences by family, friends and colleagues, tribute poems, parodies, satires and sequels based on his ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

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  • A Dark Night's Work

    In the county town of a certain shire there lived (about forty years ago) one Mr. Wilkins, a conveyancing attorney of considerable standing. ... Read more

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  • Slumming

    Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

    by Seth Koven ...
    In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming ... Read more

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  • Ten books about Charles Dickens

    This book-collection file includes: Charles Dickens and Music by James Lightwood, Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Kent, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G.K. Chesterton, The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick by B.W. Nats, The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick by Frank Lockwood, Life of Charles Dickens by Frank Marzials, Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Fitzgerald ... Read more

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