The Gothic Wanderer

Author : Tyler R. Tichelaar
Publisher : Modern History Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781615991389

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The Gothic Wanderer by Tyler R. Tichelaar Pdf

The Gothic Wanderer Rises Eternal in Popular Literature From the horrors of sixteenth century Italian castles to twenty-first century plagues, from the French Revolution to the liberation of Libya, Tyler R. Tichelaar takes readers on far more than a journey through literary history. The Gothic Wanderer is an exploration of man's deepest fears, his eff orts to rise above them for the last two centuries, and how he may be on the brink finally of succeeding. Tichelaar examines the figure of the Gothic wanderer in such well-known Gothic novels as "The Mysteries of Udolpho," "Frankenstein," and "Dracula," as well as lesser known works like Fanny Burney's "The Wanderer," Mary Shelley's "The Last Man," and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "Zanoni." He also finds surprising Gothic elements in classics like Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes." From Matthew Lewis' "The Monk" to Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight," Tichelaar explores a literary tradition whose characters refl ect our greatest fears and deepest hopes. Readers will find here the revelation that not only are we all Gothic wanderers--but we are so only by our own choosing. Acclaim for "The Gothic Wanderer" ""The Gothic Wanderer" shows us the importance of its title figure in helping us to see our own imperfections and our own sometimes contradictory yearnings to be both unique and yet a part of a society. The reader is in for an insightful treat." --Diana DeLuca, Ph.D. and author of Extraordinary Things "Make no mistake about it, The Gothic Wanderer is an important, well researched and comprehensive treatise on some of the world's finest literature." --Michael Willey, author of Ojisan Zanoni Foreword by Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Ph.D. Learn more at www.GothicWanderer.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Literary Criticism: Gothing & Romance Literary Criticism: European - General

Author : Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1554510996

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The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor Pdf

Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she's deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he's also a little creepy. Little do Tiffany, her father, or even her astute Granny Ruth suspect the truth. The mysterious Pierre L'Errant is actually a vampire, returning to his tribal home after centuries spent in Europe. But Tiffany has other things on her mind: her new boyfriend is acting weird, disputes with her father are escalating, and her estranged mother is starting a new life with somebody else. Fed up and heartsick, Tiffany threatens drastic measures and flees into the bush. There, in the midnight woods, a chilling encounter with L'Errant changes everything ... for both of them. A mesmerizing blend of Gothic thriller and modern coming-of-age novel, The Night Wanderer is unlike any other vampire story.

Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465612229

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Melmoth the Wanderer (Complete) by Charles Robert Maturin Pdf

The beauty of the country through which he travelled (it was the county Wicklow) could not prevent his mind from dwelling on many painful thoughts, some borrowed from the past, and more from the future. His uncle’s caprice and moroseness,—the strange reports concerning the cause of the secluded life he had led for many years,—his own dependent state,—fell like blows fast and heavy on his mind. He roused himself to repel them,—sat up in the mail, in which he was a solitary passenger,—looked out on the prospect,—consulted his watch;—then he thought they receded for a moment,—but there was nothing to fill their place, and he was forced to invite them back for company. When the mind is thus active in calling over invaders, no wonder the conquest is soon completed. As the carriage drew near the Lodge, (the name of old Melmoth’s seat), John’s heart grew heavier every moment. The recollection of this awful uncle from infancy,—when he was never permitted to approach him without innumerable lectures,—not to be troublesome,—not to go too near his uncle,—not to ask him any questions,—on no account to disturb the inviolable arrangement of his snuff-box, hand-bell, and spectacles, nor to suffer the glittering of the gold-headed cane to tempt him to the mortal sin of handling it,—and, finally, to pilot himself aright through his perilous course in and out of the apartment without striking against the piles of books, globes, old newspapers, wig-blocks, tobacco-pipes, and snuff-cannisters, not to mention certain hidden rocks of rat-traps and mouldy books beneath the chairs,—together with the final reverential bow at the door, which was to be closed with cautious gentleness, and the stairs to be descended as if he were “shod with felt.”—This recollection was carried on to his school-boy years, when at Christmas and Easter, the ragged poney, the jest of the school, was dispatched to bring the reluctant visitor to the Lodge,—where his pastime was to sit vis-a-vis to his uncle, without speaking or moving, till the pair resembled Don Raymond and the ghost of Beatrice in the Monk,—then watching him as he picked the bones of lean mutton out of his mess of weak broth, the latter of which he handed to his nephew with a needless caution not to “take more than he liked,”—then hurried to bed by day-light, even in winter, to save the expence of an inch of candle, where he lay awake and restless from hunger, till his uncle’s retiring at eight o’clock gave signal to the governante of the meagre household to steal up to him with some fragments of her own scanty meal, administering between every mouthful a whispered caution not to tell his uncle. Then his college life, passed in an attic in the second square, uncheered by an invitation to the country; the gloomy summer wasted in walking up and down the deserted streets, as his uncle would not defray the expences of his journey;—the only intimation of his existence, received in quarterly epistles, containing, with the scanty but punctual remittance, complaints of the expences of his education, cautions against extravagance, and lamentations for the failure of tenants and the fall of the value of lands. All these recollections came over him, and along with them the remembrance of that last scene, where his dependence on his uncle was impressed on him by the dying lips of his father.

Author : Drew Hayden Taylor,Alison Kooistra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1554515726

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The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor,Alison Kooistra Pdf

"Based on the novel The night wanderer: a native graphic novel, c2007"--T.p. verso.

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017444808

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Auriol; or, the Elixir of life. [With “The Old London Merchant” and “A Night's Adventure in Rome.”] by William Harrison Ainsworth Pdf

Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425005870

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Melmoth the Wanderer EasyRead Edition by Charles Robert Maturin Pdf

A famed Gothic novel published in 1820, it teaches a moral lesson in the guise of a terrifying tale. The protagonist of the story sells his soul to the devil in exchange of 150 years of power, knowledge and happiness. But later he regrets making this bargain and searches for someone who can help him. Spine-chilling!

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1725013959

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Carpathian Castle by Jules Verne Pdf

The descriptions of the quaint villagers of Werst, their costumes, manner of living, and belief in the supernatural world would in themselves prove an interesting narrative, but when coupled with the exciting adventures of Nic Deck, the two Counts, the cowardly Doctor, and the beautiful La Stilla, the story is undoubtedly one of the most enchanting ever offered. This mysterious tale takes place in the area which in just a few years would become known as Dracula's homeland. Jules Verne has the knack of it. He knows how to make the scientifically romantic story. You might not know what a "nyctalop" was, but if you saw one flapping his wings around the dark fortress in the Carpathians, you would run for it, as did Nic Deck.. Orfanik is head conjurer, and in his trial he explains how he brought into play for a wicked purpose a variety of ingenious inventions. Includes unique illustrations!

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521794668

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The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E. Hogle Pdf

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called Gothic story ) to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between high and popular culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

Author : Ingrid Horrocks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107182233

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Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784-1814 by Ingrid Horrocks Pdf

A history of the writing of mobility in the Romantic period, through the work of major women writers.

Author : Jarlath Killeen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748690817

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Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction by Jarlath Killeen Pdf

Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the 'beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicized account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have bedevilled discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-eighteenth century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), and the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance.

Author : Fanny Burney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105904110

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The Wanderer – or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney Pdf

The Wanderer opens with a group of people fleeing the Terror. Among them is the protagonist, who refuses to identify herself. No one can place her socially-even her nationality and race are in doubt. As Burney scholar Margaret Doody explains, "the heroine thus arrives as a nameless Everywoman: both black and white, both Eastern and Western, both high and low, both English and French." She asks for help from the group, but because she knows no one, she is refused.

Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547321262

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Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin Pdf

Melmoth the Wanderer is a Gothic novel by Charles Maturin. Melmoth is an academic who offered his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 additional years of life, while searching the world for someone who will take over the pact for him.

Author : Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230239432

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The Handbook of the Gothic by Marie Mulvey-Roberts Pdf

This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic.

Author : Margot Gayle Backus
Publisher : Post-Contemporary Intervention
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047702439

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The Gothic Family Romance by Margot Gayle Backus Pdf

Uses 19th and 20th-century Irish Gothic literary texts to argue that capitalism, the nuclear patriarchal family and Protestantism coincided with and reinforced the conditions for the plantation of Ireland and the colonization which followed.

Author : Sue Chaplin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230801400

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The Gothic and the Rule of the Law, 1764-1820 by Sue Chaplin Pdf

This book is the first full-length theoretical and historical study of the relation between early Gothic fiction and an emerging modern rule of law. The work identifies not only a political and cultural, but also an ontological relation between what critics have conceptualized as 'Gothic' and the nature and function of modern juridical power.