Black Bess Or The Knight Of The Road
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| Author | : Edward Viles |
| Publisher | : Hansebooks |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783337136970 |
Black Bess - Or, The Knight of the Road is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
| Author | : Vicki Anderson |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2014-10-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0786483024 |
With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
| Author | : Marie Mulvey-Roberts |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 1998-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0814756093 |
Some topics and literary figures discussed are: American Gothic, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Gothic architecture, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Contemporary Gothic, Occultism, Robert Louis Stevenson, Witches and witchcraft, Spiritualism, Oscar Wilde, Gothic film, Ghost stories, and Edgar Allan Poe.
| Author | : Fred Hobson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 585 |
| Release | : 2016-01-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 019045511X |
The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South--global, multicultural, plural: more Souths than South--that would not have been embraced two or three decades ago, and it similarly expands the idea of literature itself. Representative of the current range of activity in the field of Southern literary studies, it challenges earlier views of antebellum Southern literature, as well as, in its discussions of twentieth-century writing, questions the assumption that the Southern Renaissance of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s was the supreme epoch of Southern expression, that writing to which all that had come before had led and by which all that came afterward was judged. As well as canonical Southern writers, it examines Native American literature, Latina/o literature, Asian American as well as African American literatures, Caribbean studies, sexuality studies, the relationship of literature to film, and a number of other topics which are relatively new to the field.
| Author | : Montague Summers |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2020-03-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 375048144X |
An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1908 |
| Genre | : Labor |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Gothic revival (Literature) |
| ISBN | : 1438109113 |
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.
| Author | : Anonymous Anonymous |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 109 |
| Release | : 2013-03-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1908694874 |
The "penny blood” came into being through a process which began with higher standards of general education and literacy in England at the beginning of the 19th century, and continued with the invention of fast and efficient printing presses and cheap paper production. These combined elements simultaneously created a new, mass market for literature, and fed that market with new, affordable product. The gothic novel, popular amongst a rarefied class of literary readers, duly gave way to sensationalistic, graphic shockers for the masses. The PENNY BLOOD CLASSICS ebook series, which focuses on the "golden age” of the penny bloods, continues with the legendary tale of Spring-Heeled Jack, first reported in 1808, and again in 1837. Spring-Heeled Jack was described by people who claimed to have seen him as having a terrifying and frightful appearance, with diabolical physiognomy, clawed hands, eyes that "resembled red balls of fire”, and the ability to perform astounding leaps. Jack was perfect melodrama material, and in 1840 John Thomas Haines wrote "Spring-Heeled Jack, the Terror of London", a play portraying him as a villain who stalks and attacks innocent women. This volume features "Spring-Heeled Jack: The Terror Of London", an anonymous penny blood published by the Newsagents' Publishing Company c.1864-1867. The book also includes an extensive introduction on the history of the penny blood.
| Author | : Maggs Bros |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 438 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : Booksellers' catalogs |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Eric Midwinter |
| Publisher | : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2019-02-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1912421062 |
For a hundred years, from about the 1850s to the 1950s, schoolboy stories were voraciously read by the vast majority of boys and a high proportion of girls. A huge proportion of these ‘ripping yarns’ were school-based stories – and cricket was an invariable element, From Tom Brown’s Schooldays to the ‘Red Circle’ tales of the Hotspur comic, older children of all classes were inducted into a culture in which cricket was admired as the ideal sport. Inevitably, this led to generations of parents and, importantly, teachers inculcating this concept into their offspring and pupils respectively. The chief relevant authors were self-proclaimed protagonists of the faith of Muscular Christianity; there was no accident about the creed they preached in their stories, inclusive of the righteous role of cricket in pursuit of their ideals. This text describes the sheer weight and longevity of cricket in this type of literature and the background and beliefs of its major progenitors. That also analyses the cultural and social impact of this intense volume of schoolboy cricket tales. The author’s controversial conclusion is that, in brief, it was good for cricket but bad for the nation’s education system. Here is a book, then, that will appeal not only to cricket fans but to those interested in children’s literature, social history and the development of today’s schools.
