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Mörkrets makter : Den unika versionen av Dracula
En unik och gåtfull version av Bram Stokers Dracula, publicerad i Sverige 1899 och bortglömd tills nyligen. Mörkrets makter är en tidig antifascistisk roman som kritiserar dåtidens …
Gothic Histories
In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval …
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic
“Simply put, there is absolutely nothing on the market with the range of ambition of this strikingly eclectic collection of essays. Not only is it impossible to imagine a more …
Literature and Culture in Modern Britain: Volume 1
The first in a three-volume sequence, this book covers the period between 1900 and 1929, providing a perceptive and thorough analysis of British literature within its historical, …
The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created …
Terror Within
We live in an age of terrorism and like to think that the United Kingdom is a reasonably peaceful place, largely untroubled by the atrocity committed by foreign fanatics. This book …
American Drama
American Drama offers a comprehensive introduction for students who require detailed but clear information on the dramatists included. It has much to offer the academic and serious …
The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease …
Literature and Culture in Modern Britain
British culture has changed almost beyond recognition since 1956. Angry young men have been displaced by Yuppies, Elvis by the Spice Girls, and meat and two veg by continental …
Thatcher's Secret War
Margaret Thatcher remains one of the United Kingdom’s most polarising prime ministers. This provocative investigation sheds new light on the secret, internal ‘cold war’ that the …
Public Value and Public Administration
Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice? This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, …