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Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a comprehensive and accessible
resource for students of the long nineteenth century. The volume is
divided into a number of cross-referenced sections which address
the preoccupations and historical events of this crucial period in
recent history and culture. Central to the book's function as a
durable reference work is an extensive A-Z glossary which clarifies
Victorian terminology and explains key historical and political
events. This is supplemented with a chronology listing significant
domestic, imperial and international events from 1837 to 1901; a
tabulation of British Prime Ministers in office during Queen
Victoria's reign; a succinct but detailed survey of the most
important acts of Parliament in the period; an explanation of
pre-decimal British coinage; and a useful chart which converts
imperial measurement into their metric equivalents. This book is an
essential reference for scholars of Victorian literature and
history from undergraduate to postgraduate level.
Do recent moves in the construction industry towards collaborative
working and other new procurement procedures really make good
business sense? Procurement in the Construction Industry is the
result of research into this question and it includes the first
rigorous categorizing of the differences between procurement
methods currently in use. In the process of carrying out this
research, the team has produced a comprehensive study of
procurement methods which looks in detail at the relative benefits
and costs of different ways of working, with sometimes surprising
results. As such, it is not only a valuable guide for practitioners
on the complexities of the procurement process, but also an outline
of the relevance of economic theory to the construction sector.
As dams age, they are subject to a series of external agents and
processes which tend to deteriorate the qualities with which they
were originally conceived to stand against these actions. At the
same time, it is often necessary to respond to increased safety
standards, either in the structural or hydrological fields.
Reservoir sedimentation or water quality issues within the
reservoir also give raise to problems that must be addressed.
Lastly, climatic change in the management of water resources, and
the need for sustainability have clearly become new incidence
factors with which Dam Owners will have to coexist in the future.
Therefore it is obvious that an increase in budget allocation for
remedial and conservation measures is required, in order to reach
the increasing operation, supply and security measures which are
being established. The relevance of this factor is mostly
emphasized in developed countries which own an important heritage
of aging dams. In this context, Dam Maintenance and Rehabilitation
II constitutes a complete review of the state of art in techniques
concerning dam retrofitting and conservation. Contributions are
presented either in English or Spanish and correspond to a wide
range of topics related to dam maintenance, behaviour evaluation
and rehabilitation. This shared knowledge and experience will
surely be highly relevant for dam academics and professionals at
all technical and administrative levels.
Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act
of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most
enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original
essays and an authoritative introduction, this collection explores
how the act of suicide has been portrayed, interrogated and
pathologised from the eighteenth century to the present. The
featured fictions embrace both canonical and the less-studied texts
and examine the crisis of suicide - a crisis that has personal,
familial, religious, legal and medical implications - in European,
American and Asian contexts. Featuring detailed interventions into
the understanding of texts as temporally distant as Thomas Percy's
Reliques and Patricia Highsmith's crime fictions, and movements as
diverse as Wertherism, Romanticism and fin-de-siecle decadence,
Suicide and the Gothic provides a comprehensive and compelling
overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture. -- .
The dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based
primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of
this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed
reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the
early years of the nineteenth century to the fin de siecle, the
book provides an unequalled insight into the Victorian public's
understanding of the techniques, assumptions and implications of
defining a person's character by way of the bumps on their skull.
Highly relevant to the study of the many authors - Wilkie Collins,
Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, among them - whose fiction was
informed by the imagery of phrenology, The dome of thought will
prove an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the
popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including
literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader. -- .
Stoker is best remembered today as the author of "Dracula".
However, as the 12 essays in this volume demonstrate, Stoker's work
blends the Gothic with the discourses of politics, sexuality,
medicine and national identity to produce texts that may be read by
a variety of critical methodologies. Following an introduction
which analyzes how Stoker's writings have been critically received
in the 20th century, the text addresses not merely "Dracula" but
also the author's other writings through historicism, psychology
and genre.
Stoker is best remembered today as the author of Dracula . However,
as the twelve essays in this volume demonstrate, Stoker's work
blends the Gothic with the discourses of politics, sexuality,
medicine and national identity to produce texts that may be read by
a variety of critical methodologies. Following an Introduction that
analyses how Stoker's writings have been critically received in the
twentieth century, the book addresses not merely Dracula but also
the author's other writings through historicism, psychology and
genre.
Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a comprehensive and accessible
resource for students of the long nineteenth century. The volume is
divided into a number of cross-referenced sections which address
the preoccupations and historical events of this crucial period in
recent history and culture. Central to the book's function as a
durable reference work is an extensive A-Z glossary which clarifies
Victorian terminology and explains key historical and political
events. This is supplemented with a chronology listing significant
domestic, imperial and international events from 1837 to 1901; a
tabulation of British Prime Ministers in office during Queen
Victoria's reign; a succinct but detailed survey of the most
important acts of Parliament in the period; an explanation of
pre-decimal British coinage; and a useful chart which converts
imperial measurement into their metric equivalents. This book is an
essential reference for scholars of Victorian literature and
history from undergraduate to postgraduate level.
Do recent moves in the construction industry towards
collaborative working and other new procurement procedures really
make good business sense? Procurement in the Construction Industry
is the result of research into this question and it includes the
first rigorous categorizing of the differences between procurement
methods currently in use. In the process of carrying out this
research, the team has produced a comprehensive study of
procurement methods which looks in detail at the relative benefits
and costs of different ways of working, with sometimes surprising
results. As such, it is not only a valuable guide for practitioners
on the complexities of the procurement process, but also an outline
of the relevance of economic theory to the construction sector.
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Ecogothic (Paperback)
Andrew Smith, William Hughes
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R629
Discovery Miles 6 290
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This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages
with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images
of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home,
constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse -
images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic
literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical
aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical,
this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and
ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary
Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood,
Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus
explores writing and film across various national contexts
including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due
consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global
context. -- .
Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with
the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory.
Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth
century and the present, the contributors explore the relationship
between reading Gothically and reading Queerly, making this
collection both an important reassessment of the Gothic tradition
and a significant contribution to scholarship on queer theory.
Writers discussed include William Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary
Shelley, George Eliot, George Du Maurier, Oscar Wilde, Eric, Count
Stenbock. E. M. Forster, Antonia White, Melanie Tem, Poppy Z.
Brite, and Will Self. There is also exploration of non-text media
including an analysis of Michael Jackson's pop videos. Arranged
chronologically, the book establishes links between texts and
periods and examines how conjunctions of 'queer', 'gay', and
'lesbian' can be related to, and are challenged by, a Gothic
tradition. All of the chapters were specially commissioned for the
collection, and the contributors are drawn from the forefront of
academic work in both Gothic and Queer Studies. -- .
An essential quick-reference book for students of Gothic
literature, theatre and literary theory'Key Concepts in the Gothic'
provides a one-stop resource which details and defines, in
accessible language, those contexts essential for the study of the
Gothic in all periods and media. The volume is divided into three
sections: Concepts and Terms; Theories of the Gothic; and Key
Fictional Texts. Bibliographies are provided with the last two
sections. The book clearly explains the critical terms from
'Ab-human' to 'Zombie' as well as the main theories, including
ecocriticism, queer theory and Postcolonial theory, which any
student of the Gothic is likely to encounter. This book will be a
reliable companion for students of the genre from school and
through university.Key FeaturesCovers the Gothic from the
eighteenth century to the presentProvides a comprehensive survey
not just of movements and theories but also of the essential
terminology used in Gothic StudiesA reference work for those
working with genres inflected by the Gothic, such as Romanticism,
theatre studies and crime writingProvides a readily accessible
resource for developing further research
Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how
the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional
experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has
historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve
original essays in this volume interrogate the interplay of ideas
and generic innovations generated in the spaces between the nominal
kingdom and its component nations and, innovatively, within those
national spaces. Concentrating upon fictions depicting England,
Scotland and Wales specifically, Gothic Britain comprehends the
generic possibilities of the urban and the rural, of the historical
and the contemporary, of the metropolis and the rural settlement -
as well as exploring uniquely the fluid space that is the act of
travel itself. Reading the textuality of some two hundred years of
national and regional identity, Gothic Britain interrogates how the
genre has depicted and questioned the natural and built
environments of the island of Britain.
This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in
literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender,
race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. A coherent
narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in
folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through
Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu's Carmilla.
Further essays discuss the Undead in the context of Dracula,
fin-de-siecle decadence, Nazi Germany and early cinematic
treatments. The rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from
Coppola's film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and Twilight. More recent manifestations in novels, TV, Goth
subculture, young adult fiction and cinema are dealt with in
discussions of True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and much more.
Featuring distinguished contributors, including a prominent
novelist, and aimed at interdisciplinary scholars or postgraduate
students, it will also appeal to aficionados of creative writing
and Undead enthusiasts. www.opengravesopenminds.com -- .
Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than
others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The
Castle of Otranto in 1764. During this long while, it has spread
from England, to the rest of Great Britain, and across to the
continent, and off to America and Australia, filling in the gaps
more recently. Most of it is in English, but hardly all, and it has
adopted all styles, from romanticism, to modernism, to
postmodernism and even adjusted to feminist and queer literature,
and science fiction. We have all, read some Gothic tales or if not
read then seen them in the cinema, since they adapt well to film
treatment, and it would be hard to find anyone who has not heard of
ghosts and vampires, let alone Count Dracula and Frankenstein. On
the other hand, some of us are inveterate Gothic fans, reading one
book or story after the other. The Historical Dictionary of Gothic
Literature follows this long and winding path, first in an
extensive chronology and then a useful introduction which explains
the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Obviously, the
dictionary section has entries on major writers, and some of the
best-known works, but also on geographical variants like Irish,
Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and
Science Fiction. This is provided in over 200 often substantial and
always intriguing entries. More can be found in a detailed
bibliography, including general works but also more specialized
ones on different styles and genres, and also specific authors.
This book should certainly interest the fans but also more serious
researchers.
A multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian
Gothic
These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the
field, provide an invaluable insight into the complex and various
Gothic forms of the nineteenth century. Covering a range of diverse
contexts, the chapters focus on science, medicine, Queer theory,
imperialism, nationalism, and gender. Together with further
chapters on the ghost story, realism, the fin de siecle, pulp
fictions, sensation fiction, and the Victorian way of death, the
Companion provides a thorough-going overview of the Victorian
Gothic.
An essential resource for students and scholars working on the
Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory.
Key Features
* First multi-authored thorough exploration of the Victorian
Gothic
* Original research in all chapters
* Sets the agenda for future scholarship in the field
* Pedagogically awareKey WordsVictorian, Gothic, Science, Gender,
Nationalism, Death, Supernatural, Ghost, Death"
Critical Thinking is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to
the essential skills of good reasoning. The authors provide a
thorough treatment of such central topics as deductive and
inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, how to recognize and avoid
ambiguity, and how to distinguish what is relevant from what is
not. Later chapters discuss the application of critical thinking
skills to particular topics and tasks, including scientific
reasoning, moral reasoning, legal reasoning, media analysis, and
essay writing. The book also provides complimentary access to a
companion website containing additional questions, flashcards, and
other useful critical thinking resources.
A multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian
Gothic
These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the
field, provide an invaluable insight into the complex and various
Gothic forms of the nineteenth century. Covering a range of diverse
contexts, the chapters focus on science, medicine, Queer theory,
imperialism, nationalism, and gender. Together with further
chapters on the ghost story, realism, the fin de siecle, pulp
fictions, sensation fiction, and the Victorian way of death, the
Companion provides a thorough-going overview of the Victorian
Gothic.
An essential resource for students and scholars working on the
Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory.
Key Features
* First multi-authored thorough exploration of the Victorian
Gothic
* Original research in all chapters
* Sets the agenda for future scholarship in the field
* Pedagogically awareKey WordsVictorian, Gothic, Science, Gender,
Nationalism, Death, Supernatural, Ghost, Death
Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with
the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory.
Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth
century and the present, the contributors explore the relationship
between reading Gothically and reading Queerly, making this
collection both an important reassessment of the Gothic tradition
and a significant contribution to scholarship on queer theory.
Writers discussed include William Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary
Shelley, George Eliot, George Du Maurier, Oscar Wilde, Eric, Count
Stenbock. E. M. Forster, Antonia White, Melanie Tem, Poppy Z.
Brite, and Will Self. There is also exploration of non-text media
including an analysis of Michael Jackson's pop videos. Arranged
chronologically, the book establishes links between texts and
periods and examines how conjunctions of 'queer', 'gay', and
'lesbian' can be related to, and are challenged by, a Gothic
tradition. All of the chapters were specially commissioned for the
collection, and the contributors are drawn from the forefront of
academic work in both Gothic and Queer Studies. -- .
The explanation of a broad spectrum of fluid mechanics topics and such specialized material as hypersonic flow and non-Newtonian fluids, makes this book valuable both as a study guide and reference for practitioners, for undergraduate and graduate students, and for those studying solo. Contains new information about solving the equations that are the foundation of fluid mechanics by computer. It provides excellent preparation for such fields as aeronautics, aerospace science, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering.
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