The Making of Percy's Reliques

The Making of Percy's Reliques
Author: Nick Groom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198184591

Percy's Reliques is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the 18th century. This study examines his working methods.

Suicide and the Gothic

Suicide and the Gothic
Author: William Hughes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526120100

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 games are covered from European, American and Asian contexts.

Thomas Percy

Thomas Percy
Author: Bertram Hylton Davis
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Songs and Sonnets

Songs and Sonnets
Author: Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781018394336

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Relic of Perilous Falls

The Relic of Perilous Falls
Author: Raymond Arroyo
Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553539590

"A thrill-seeking twelve-year-old boy with a mysterious family heritage discovers ancient objects of rare power--and must protect them from the terrifying demons who will do anything to possess them"--

The Ultimate Experience

The Ultimate Experience
Author: Y. Harari
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2008-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230583881

For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.