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Justin D. Edwards
This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie…
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This book reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. Essays explore the links between technologies and the proliferation…
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Analyses the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity. By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers how the categories of race…
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Justin D. Edwards (Associate Professor)
A major contribution to cultural and literary studies, Gothic Canada unearths two centuries of Canadian gothic writings to reveal uncanny traditions of trauma, repression, and monstrosity.
American Modernism across the Arts expands our vision of the modernist impulse by taking the arts together. Each of the essays in this book ranges between the arts, or between…
Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada’s cities and call attention to the…
Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and…
This book examines the Gothic in literature, film, and culture in the tropical and sub-tropical ‘South’ of the Americas, moving between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Costa Rica…
Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature.
Justin D. Edwards (University of Surrey (United Kingdom)),Rune Graulund
This book examines a strand of contemporary travel writing that experiments with form, content and the politics of representation. Writers such as Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips transform the genre…
Introduces readers to the author known for the novels Annie John , Lucy , and The Autobiography of My Mother . This work surveys Jamaica Kincaid’s life, career, and works…
A critical introduction to the "Tropical Gothic" genre in the visual arts, cinema and literature around the world
This volume looks at the Tropical Gothic genre through the lens of…
Travel writing in a genre monopolised by Westerners and written about almost exclusively through a European prism of references. By contrast, this book collects important works by travel writers from…
More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective on the Anthropocene. In this volume, more than a dozen scholars show that the…
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1290), A Korean Official’s Account of China (1488), The Poetry of Basho’s Road (1689), Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British (1890).
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William a 1794-1880 Hallock
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
