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  • All Hallows' Eve

    by A.F. Murray, William Hughes Mearns, Gibbs M. Smith ...
    This charmingly illustrated volume collects classic works of eerie and ghoulish poetry and prose from the 19th and early 20th centuries.All Hallows' Eve is the perfect gift for readers of all ages who revel in the spooky spirit of Halloween. These ghastly poems, sinister short stories, and curious black and white line illustrations throughout are sure to keep your bones chilled and your ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • EcoGothic

    Edited by Andrew Smith, William Hughes ...
    Series series International Gothic Series
    This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse – images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Gothic Britain

    Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles

    Edited by William Hughes, Ruth Heholt ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays in this volume interrogate the interplay of ideas and generic innovations generated in the spaces between the nominal kingdom and ... Read more

    $30.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature

    by Professor William Hughes ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The gothic is far more than a genre preoccupied with ghosts, vampires and the supernatural. It is a phenomenon that has influenced the expression of unease and fear across many cultures.Comprehending gothic textuality from the 18th century to the present, the Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature, Second Edition addresses not merely supernatural fiction but also film, television, graphic ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • The Snake's Pass

    A Critical Edition

    by Bram Stoker, Mark Doyle, William Hughes, Nicholas Daly, Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    In 1890, The Snake’s Pass was published in serialized form in the periodical The People. It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who has inherited wealth and a title through an aunt who took him under her wing to the exclusion of closer relations. His inheritance includes land in Ireland, and now that he is a man of leisure, he decides to tour the west of Ireland. As Bram Stoker’s first ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Key Concepts in the Gothic

    by William Hughes ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Literature

    $20.79 USD

  • Dracula (Warbler Classics)

    by Bram Stoker, William Hughes ...
    One of the most famous pieces of English literature of all time, Dracula is a towering work of Gothic fiction whose archetypal characters-Count Dracula and Abraham Van Helsing-have permeated popular culture since their first appearance in 1897. Drawing on Transylvanian folklore, Bram Stoker weaves his tale of horror through newspaper articles and the letters, diary entries, journals, telegrams, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The dome of thought

    Phrenology and the nineteenth-century popular imagination

    by William Hughes ...
    The dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle, the book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public’s understanding of the ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Suicide and the Gothic

    Edited by William Hughes, Andrew Smith ...
    Series series International Gothic Series
    Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original essays and an authoritative introduction, this collection explores how the act of suicide has been portrayed, interrogated and pathologised from the eighteenth century to the present. The featured ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Open graves, open minds

    Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day

    Edited by Sam George, William Hughes ...
    This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change.A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu's Carmilla. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

    Edited by William Hughes, David Punter, Andrew Smith ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
    THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GOTHIC“Well written and interesting [it is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the field of gothic studies … A reference work that’s firmly rooted in and actively devoted to expressing the current state of academic ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Critical Thinking - Concise Edition

    by William Hughes, Jonathan Lavery ...
    Critical Thinking is a comprehensive introduction to the essential skills of good reasoning, refined and updated through seven editions published over more than two decades. This concise edition offers a succinct presentation of the essential elements of reasoning that retains the rigor and sophistication of the original text. The authors provide a thorough treatment of such central topics as ... Read more

    $39.99 USD