"No character was ever thrown into such strange relief as Gilliatt... here, indeed, the true position of man in the universe." -Robert Louis Stevenson

The Toilers of the Sea tells…

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Suitable for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory, this title offers insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th…

Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems, short stories, novels, films and video…

Full Title: Arthur W. Smith, Andrew A. Clark and William Foster Oakes, Plaintiffs-Respondents, against London Assurance Corporation, Defendant-Appellant

Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions…

This abridgement collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and careers of writers not found in other reference…

Balancing historical nuance with passion for cinematic narratives, Writing History with Lightning confronts how movies about nineteenth-century America influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, understand, and envision the…