Sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror, and traces criticism of the novel from the nineteenth century onwards. This title includes fourteen passages from Pride and Prejudice.
Sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror, and traces criticism of the novel from the ...
The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey, and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond, necessitates a critical examination.
The volume brings together ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world, and engages directly with the immense amount of new information to be published on De Quincey in the past two decades. The book features wide-ranging and incisive assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist, subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator, hedonist, and much else.
The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey, and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and b...
A dark cloud of sin hangs over the puritanical village of Omer, a town lost to history and bound there by the stifling doctrine of its evil pastor, Icabod Kroll. Under the pretense of a curse, and encouraged by Kroll, the pilgrims of the town shun Eva Wirdth during her pregnancy. In the throes of painful labor, Icabod betrays Eva and delivers her child into the hands of the megalomaniac, genetic physicist Dr. Friedrich Von Skrimmel.
The zealous Doctor's interests lay in the child alone and Eva is left to die following a botched cesarean section at the hands of the ruthless and...
A dark cloud of sin hangs over the puritanical village of Omer, a town lost to history and bound there by the stifling doctrine of its evil pastor, Ic...
