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Dracula (Paperback)
Bram Stoker; Edited by Rachel Feder
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Arguably the most famous vampire story in all of literature, Bram
Stoker's Dracula (1897) is the chilling tale of a monster of
incomprehensible evil and the band of heroes who desperately hunt
him. With twists and turns that unfold through journal entries,
letters, and other "found" writings, Stoker stages a dramatic
struggle between forces of good and evil, insanity and reason, and
fear and desire as the group contends with the mysterious Count
Dracula and his terrifying nature. This unforgettable masterpiece
of Gothic horror inspired several iconic adaptations and has become
the archetype for the vampire lore that continues to grip audiences
across countless genres and mediums.
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2
is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll
is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what
literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on
what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and
Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of
Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on
Loewy and Sayre's Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, it
explores how hostility, loss, and longing for unity are
particularly appropriate terms for classic rock as well as the
origins of these emotions. In essays ranging from Bob Dylan to
Blackberry Smoke, this work examines how rock and roll expands,
interprets, restates, interrogates, and conflicts with literary
Romanticism, all the while understanding that as a term "rock and
roll" in reference to popular music from the late 1940s through the
early 2000s is every bit as contradictory and difficult to define
as the word Romanticism itself.
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2
is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll
is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what
literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on
what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and
Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of
Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on
Loewy and Sayre's Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, it
explores how hostility, loss, and longing for unity are
particularly appropriate terms for classic rock as well as the
origins of these emotions. In essays ranging from Bob Dylan to
Blackberry Smoke, this work examines how rock and roll expands,
interprets, restates, interrogates, and conflicts with literary
Romanticism, all the while understanding that as a term "rock and
roll" in reference to popular music from the late 1940s through the
early 2000s is every bit as contradictory and difficult to define
as the word Romanticism itself.
Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift
and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a book for
anyone who loves thinking deeply about literature and culture
whether they love Jane Austen or not. You already know Mr. Darcy at
least you think you do! The brooding, rude, standoffish romantic
hero of Pride and Prejudice, Darcy initially insults and ignores
the witty heroine, but eventually succumbs to her charms. It s a
classic enemies-to-lovers plot, and one that has profoundly
influenced our cultural ideas about courtship. But what if this
classic isn t just a grand romance, but a horror novel about how
scary love and marriage can be for women? In The Darcy Myth,
literature scholar Rachel Feder unpacks Austen s Gothic influences
and how they ve led us to a romantic ideal that s halfway to being
a monster story. Why is our culture so obsessed with cruel,
indifferent romantic heroes (and sometimes heroines)? How much of
that is Darcy s fault? And, now that we know, what do we do about
it?
In the period between 1815 and 1820, Mary Shelley wrote her most
famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, as well as
its companion piece, Mathilda, a tragic incest narrative that was
confiscated by her father, William Godwin, and left unpublished
until 1959. She also gave birth to four-and lost three-children. In
this hybrid text, Rachel Feder interprets Frankenstein and Mathilda
within a series of provocative frameworks including Shelley's
experiences of motherhood and maternal loss, twentieth-century
feminists' interests in and attachments to Mary Shelley, and the
critic's own experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood.
Harvester of Hearts explores how Mary Shelley's exchanges with her
children-in utero, in birth, in life, and in death-infuse her
literary creations. Drawing on the archives of feminist
scholarship, Feder theorizes "elective affinities," a term she
borrows from Goethe to interrogate how the personal attachments of
literary critics shape our sense of literary history. Feder blurs
the distinctions between intellectual, bodily, literary, and
personal history, reanimating the classical feminist discourse on
Frankenstein by stepping into the frame. The result-at once an
experimental book of literary criticism, a performative foray into
feminist praxis, and a deeply personal lyric essay-not only locates
Mary Shelley's monsters within the folds of maternal identity but
also illuminates the connections between the literary and the
quotidian.
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