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Romance novels comprise over a billion dollars a year in book sales, outselling science fiction, fantasy, and mystery combined. So why is the genre so often dismissed as frivolous rather than elevated as a...
Historian Amanda Vickery traces the rise in popularity of Jane Austen, from a little-read Regency novelist to a global brand.
This combined DVD and text resource introduces aspects of the Gothic, in the context of key texts. Strategies for close focus and comparative work, critical and contextual material, plus a DVD of Professor...
A terrifying new version of Bram Stoker’s classic tale of sex, death and desire. Returning to the original novel for his inspiration, Stewart Harcourt’s script draws both on elements of Stoker’s own...
A BBC series, written and presented by Professor Christopher Frayling, investigating the origins of our popular gothic novels. These best-selling books have thrived in industries such as film,...
A survey of supernatural themes in literature.
Classic 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Boris Karloff. The DVD also includes the 1935 sequel, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in which Elsa Lanchester plays the bride as well as Shelley herself.
Martha Kearney is joined by author Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth by exploring the life and times of the author and her siblings Emily and...
Patrica Waugh and Jennifer Hodgson discuss their motivations for writing their article ‘On the Exaggerated Reports of a Decline in British Fiction,' published in The White Review arts journal. In this...
Podcast from the Folger Institute Library. While print sales of adult fiction are down in the last decade, the juvenile market - which includes YA (Young Adults) - has gone up 40 percent. In this episode,...
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