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Baltic Horror in film, gaming and literature

University of Wales Press

Argues that horror cinema originates from the overlooked Baltic region.Arguably, the Baltic region saw the birth of horror cinema when Germany produced its cycle of silent horror films. However, this geog…

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Máiréad Casey
Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema

University of Wales Press

Examines how cultural and economic anxieties in 2008 influenced the popularity of demon possession and gendered violence in American horror.This book examines American horror films as key sites for explor…

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Karen Sullivan
Introducing the Medieval Bear

University of Wales Press

Explores the unique appreciation and conception of bears in medieval culture.For medieval people, bears were not objects of eliminationist predation, as they often became in later years, or environmentali…

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Julia Pineau
Introducing the Medieval Snail

University of Wales Press

Fills a gap in medieval studies by exploring the significance of the snail.When one thinks about medieval animals, snails rarely come to mind. Just as history has long had its biases, so has the study of …

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William Gibson
James II and Wales

University of Wales Press

Studies the unsuccessful rule of King James II in seventeenth-century Wales.The reign of James II was a dramatic failure in Wales. He became King when Welsh loyalty to the crown and church was strong. How…

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Howard Williams
Kant's Critique of Hobbes

University of Wales Press

Kant's Critique of Hobbes is a unique systematic study of the relationship between the two thinkers. In it, Howard Williams demonstrates the viable alternative to Hobbes' orthodoxy that can be found in Ka…

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Gary K Browning
Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives

University of Wales Press

Lyotard shook the cultural world in the late-twentieth century by announcing postmodernism and the end of grand narratives. He captured a feeling of unease about the standpoint of great modern thinkers wh…

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C. E. Smith
Metamodern Gothic

University of Wales Press

Analyzes classic and new motifs in contemporary Gothic literature.This book illustrates how contemporary Gothic literature can be read through a metamodern lens and investigates the concept of multiplicit…

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Laura R. Kremmel
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination

University of Wales Press

An account of the intersection of the Gothic and the medical imaginations in the Romantic era.This book demonstrates a little-studied crossover between the Gothic imagination and the medical imagination i…

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The Governance of St Davids 1600-1740

University of Wales Press

Analyzes the restoration of St. Davids Cathedral in Wales using previously unpublished texts.This study of a previously unpublished manuscript is a significant witness to the vigorous life of St. Davids C…

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Madeline Potter
Theological Monsters

University of Wales Press

Studies three classic Irish Gothic works through the lens of theology.This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature. The relationship …

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Washington Allston

University of Wales Press

A new edition of an overlooked nineteenth-century Gothic novel set in Italy.The nineteenth-century American artist Washington Allston bridges the worlds of art and literature in his novelMonaldi (1841). F…

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