Author : Margot Gayle Backus
Publisher : Post-Contemporary Intervention
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Uses 19th and 20th-century Irish Gothic literary texts to argue that capitalism, the nuclear patriarchal family and Protestantism coincided with and reinforced the conditions for the plantation of Ireland and the colonization which followed.
Author : Angela Wright
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 074869675X
"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Quatrième de couverture.
Author : Mary Stewart
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1444715062
'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep in a wild wood, has come just in time to save her from a bleak future. With its reputation for magic and its resident black cat, Thornyhold offers Gilly more than just a new home. It offers her a chance to start over. The old house, with it tufts of rosy houseleek and the spreading gilt of the lichens, was beautiful. Even the prisoning hedges were beautiful, protective with their rusty thorns, their bastions of holly and juniper, and at the corners, like towers, their thick columns of yews. 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times 'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent
Author : Skye Warren
Publisher : Book Beautiful
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1645960552
"This. Book. The characters. You will fall in love with them, and you will devour this book so quickly, you'll end up wanting to read it all over again. I loved it!" — New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy When I signed up for the nanny agency, I didn't expect a remote mansion on a windswept cliff. Or a brooding billionaire who resents his new role. His brother's death means he's now in charge of a moody seven year old girl. She's lashing out at the world, but I can handle her. I have to. I need the money to finish my college degree. As long as I can avoid the boss who alternately mocks me and coaxes me to reveal my darkest secrets. “An insanely absorbing and addicting contemporary tale reminiscent of Jane Eyre with all the sex and secrets you never knew you needed.” — #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken PRIVATE PROPERTY is a full-length contemporary novel from New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren about secrets and redemption. It's the first book in the emotional Rochester trilogy. "Skye Warren's modern, steamy retelling of Jane Eyre hooked me from page one! A moody, fast-paced and deliciously dirty read" — New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy "An incredible five star read! Skye Warren delivers an unconventional, yet utterly explosive romance in Private Property." — USA Today bestselling author Jenika Snow “Private Property is pure brilliance! I was hooked from page one. With steam and grit, Warren captures your attention and has you begging for the next chapter. Book gold!” — USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke "A brooding billionaire, a gothic setting, and a whole lot of steam—Warren's nod to Jane Eyre had me entranced from page one!" — #1 New York Times bestselling author Helen Hardt "I was up all night devouring every drop of the dark and dangerous Mr. Rochester." — New York Times bestselling author Laurelin Paige "Haunting, provocative, and riveting. This modern spin on gothic romance will have you on the edge of your seat!" — New York Times bestselling author Shayla Black "A compelling love story between a brooding hero and a determined heroine all set against a moody gothic background. You won't want to miss this." — USA Today bestselling author Louise Bay “Private Property will captivate you in the best way. I was a Skye Warren virgin before and I have zero regrets after taking the plunge! And trust me when I say, once you start, you won’t be able to stop.” — USA Today bestselling author Daniela Romero "Beautifully haunting and romantic! Private Property is completely captivating from the first page to the last." - Kate Canterbary, author of the Walsh Family series
Author : Ann Aguirre
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category :
ISBN :
Amarrah Brewer is desperate and grief-stricken. For ages, the town of Bitterburn has sent tribute to the Keep at the End of the World, but a harsh winter leaves them unable to pay the toll that keeps the Beast at bay. Amarrah volunteers to brave what no one has before-to end the threat or die trying. The Beast of Bitterburn has lost all hope.One way or another, Njål has been a prisoner for his entire life. Monstrous evil has left him trapped and lonely, and he believes that will never change. There is only darkness in his endless exile, never light. Never warmth. Until she arrives.It's a tale as old as time... where Beauty goes to confront the Beast and falls in love instead.
Author : Various
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781988715070
This anthology revitalises the stale gothic romance genre with stories span-ning across centuries and the world. A Sioux woman returns from the grave seeking true love. A young boy and his ghostly boyfriend dodge American soldiers and landmines in 1970s Vi-etnam. A young mother in slavery faces demons on the eve of liberation in 1800s Jamaica. A Brazilian writer-in-exile discovers his sanctuary's dark secrets - and the burning touch of a ghostly lord.
Author : Lori A. Paige
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476675651
The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the birth of modern feminism, the sexual revolution, and strong growth in the mass-market publishing industry. Women made up a large part of the book market, and Gothic fiction became a higher popular staple. Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart and Phyllis Whitney emerged as prominent authors, while the standardized paperback Gothic sold in the millions. Pitched at middle-class women of all ages, Gothics paved the way for contemporary fiction categories such as urban fantasy, paranormal romance and vampire erotica. Though not as popular today as they once were, Gothic paperbacks retain a cult following--and the books themselves have become collectors' items. They were also the first popular novels to present strong heroines as agents of liberation and transformation. This work offers the missing chapters of the Gothic story, from the imaginative creations of Ann Radcliffe and the Bronte sisters to the bestseller 50 Shades of Grey.
Author : Patricia Hagan
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1614177139
From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Hagan comes two bone-chilling gothic romances. In WINDS OF TERROR, Melanie returns to Alabama to care for her ailing adopted aunt and discovers evil lurking in the old plantation house. The adopted aunt claims she's being haunted by her nephew, who committed suicide in the house the year before, while Cale, the woman's invalid grandson, is intent on stealing Melanie's heart. But first, he has a score to settle. DARK JOURNEY HOME follows Annalisa Dubose who takes a job at a mysterious mansion in the Florida Everglades caring for a strange six-year old boy, Jody. Everyone thinks Jody went insane after his mother disappeared a year ago. Annalisa believes there's more and begins a quiet investigation. Then Jody's grandmother, Charlotte Fordham, announces she will institutionalize the boy. Annalisa begs Jody's father, Steve Fordham, who's falling in love with Annalisa, to take them away. But the twistedly jealous Charlotte will never let that happen. OTHER TITLES by Patricia Hagan Say You Love Me Starlight Simply Heaven Orchids in Moonlight Final Justice
Author : Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Based on the legendary evening at Lake Geneva that ostensibly inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gothic Romance intertwines parallel stories of suspense set in the early 19th century and latter-day London.
Author : Christine Gerhardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110480913
This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.
