"The Faustbooks introduce the basic formula that will pervade many of the subsequent dramatic versions of the legend: the two dominant figures, the protagonist Faust (or Faustus) and his demonic antagonist and tempter Mephostophiles, the first time in folklore or scripture that …
"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Quatrième de couverture.
"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Back cover
Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion offers a rigorous account of the Gothic impulses informing British, American and European literary culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
"Traces the Gothic impulses in proto-Romantic and Romantic British, American and European culture, 1740-1830"--Back cover.
Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as manifested across a wide range of Romantic-era literary texts, from the adumbrations of the Gothic mode in the proto-Romantic poetry of the 1740s, thro…
"Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women, is the first collection of its kind and a necessary contribution to East European Studies and to Women's Studies in general. The collection explores various stereotypical perceptions and represen…
This collection traces representations of East European women in Western art and culture, drawing connections between these philosophical, artistic, and cultural constructions and actual historical, socio-political realities. The articles analyse narrative, theatre, opera, journ…