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  • Barbara Comyns
    Avril Horner
    A ground-breaking biography of a cult British novelist.The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels unique in the English language. Comyns t...
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    22,83 €

  • Edith Wharton
    Avril Horner / Janet Beer
    Wharton’s late and critically-neglected novels are reclaimed as experimental in form and radical in content in this book, which also suggests that her portrayal of older female characters in her last six novels anticipates contemporary unease about the cultural marginalization of the older woman in Western society. ...
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    65,31 €

  • Le Gothic
    Avril Horner
    This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form. ...
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    47,98 €

  • Le Gothic
    Avril Horner
    This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form. ...
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    66,60 €

  • Gothic and the Comic Turn
    Avril Horner / Sue Zlosnik
    Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as d...
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    65,44 €

  • European Gothic
    Avril Horner
    The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of translation on the development of the Gothic novel. Uses a variety of critical perspecti...
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    32,06 €

  • Daphne Du Maurier
    Avril Horner / Sue Zlosnik
    Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier’s fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du Maurier’s Gothic fictions reflect both personal and broader cultural anxieties concerning sexual and social identity. Using the most r...
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    132,78 €