Classic Horror: A Historical Exploration of Literature: Historical Explorations of Literature
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781440858420
ISBN-10: 144085842X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Seria Historical Explorations of Literature
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 144085842X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Seria Historical Explorations of Literature
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Reveals truths and falsities about four major works of classic horror with regard to their historical context
Notă biografică
Anne DeLong is associate professor of English at Kutztown University.
Cuprins
Series Foreword,Acknowledgments,Introduction and Background,Chronology,1 "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798),Synopsis,Historical Background,About Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Why We Read This Work,Historical Explorations of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,"Documenting "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,"British Imperialism and Arctic Exploration,Document: Captain George Shelvocke, A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea (1726),Document: W. Ellis, An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, during the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1789, and 1780 (1783),Document: Captain James Cook, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1793),Document: Robert Southey, "The Sailor, Who Had Served in the Slave Trade" (1798),Morality and Environmentalism,Document: Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789),Document: William Bartram, Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians (1791),Document: Joseph Ritson, An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food: As a Moral Duty (1802),Document: Ernst Haeckel, Principles of General Morphology of Organisms (1866),Document: Ernst Haeckel, "Proofs of the Truth of the Theory of Descent," in The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes, Volume II (1887),Suggested Readings,2 Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818),Synopsis,Historical Background,About Mary Shelley,Why We Read This Work,Historical Explorations of Frankenstein,Documenting Frankenstein,Lightning Strikes: Harnessing the Power,Document: Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1752),Document: Joseph Priestley, The History and Present State of Electricity (1767),Document: Richard Fowler, Experiments and Observations Relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani, and Commonly Called Animal Electricity (1793),Stolen Corpses: Body Snatchers, Grave Robbers, and Resurrection Men,Document: John Aldini, An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism; with a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed before the Commissioners of the French National Institute and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London; to Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing the Author's Experiments on the Body of a Malefactor Executed at Newgate (1803),Document: James Blake Bailey, The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812, to Which Was Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act (1896),The Spark of Life: The Vitalist Debate,Document: John Abernethy, An Enquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life (1814),Document: William Lawrence, Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man (1819),Suggested Readings,3 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886),Synopsis,Historical Background,About Robert Louis Stevenson,Why We Read This Work,Historical Explorations of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,Documenting The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,The Dark Double Within: Psychology, Dreams, and the Doppelga¨nger,Document: James Cowles Prichard, A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind (1837),Document: Henry Maudsley, The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind (1872),Document: Henry Maudsley, Responsibility in Mental Disease (1900),Document: William James, Review of Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (1903),Altered States: Drug Use and Addiction,Document: Thomas Trotter, An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness and Its Effects on the Human Body (1813),Document: "Effects on the Practice of Opium Eating" (Mr. Mart on Opium-Eating/To the Editor of The Lancet) (1832),Document: "Opium Eating," The Lancet (October 7, 1835),Document: "The Effects of Opium-Eating," The Spectator (July 3, 1875),Racial Profiling: Physiognomy and Criminology,Document: "Another Brutal Murder of a Woman in East London," The Guardian (September 10, 1888),Document: Havelock Ellis, The Criminal (1890),Document: Max Nordau, Degeneration (1895),Document: Cesare Lombroso and Gina Lombroso, Criminal Man (1911),Suggested Readings,4 Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897),Synopsis,Historical Background,About Bram Stoker,Why We Read This Work,Historical Explorations of Dracula,Documenting Dracula,Mind Games: Mesmerism, Hypnosis, and Telepathy,Document: W. H. Rodgers, Facts in Magnetism, Mesmerism, Somnambulism, Fascination, Hypnotism, Sycodonamy, Etherology, Pathetism, &c., Explained and Illustrated (1849),Document: James Esdaile, Natural and Mesmeric Clairvoyance (1852),Document: William Benjamin Carpenter, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, &c., Historically & Scientifically Considered, Being Two Lectures Delivered at the London Institution, with Preface and Appendix (1877),The Science of Vampires: Contagion, Evolution, and Degeneration,Document: Thomas Percival, Medical Ethics; Or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons (1803),Document: Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, Phrenology, Or, the Doctrine of the Mind: And of the Relations between Its Manifestations and the Body (1825),Document: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880),Document: Timothy Holmes, ed., A System of Surgery, Theoretical and Practical in Treatises by Various Authors (1881),Document: Louis Pasteur, The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery (1909-1914),The Eastern European "Other": Immigration and Fears of Social Contamination,Document: George Eliot, "The Modern Hep, Hep, Hep" (1879),Document: Albert Shaw, ed., "Foreigners in London" (1891),Document: Henry Straus Quixano Henriques, The Law of Aliens and Naturalization Including the Text of the Aliens Act, 1905 (1906),Vampiric Communication: The Growth of Technology,Document: Thomas Edison, Description of the Phonograph and Phonograph-Gramophone by Their Respective Inventors (1888),Document: Julius Ensign Rockwell, Shorthand Instruction and Practice (1893),Document: Alan C. Reiley, "The Evolution of the Typewriter" (1914),Suggested Readings,Index,
Recenzii
A wealth of primary documents is included, and they will help students discern connections between gothic texts, sometimes seen as escapist in their appeal, and the cultural cross-currents and controversies that inspired them. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers.
This work would make an excellent addition to either a public, academic, or school library. The text is written to appeal to a wide range of readers, understandable to younger students or those with a general interest in the subject while also providing primary source material and discussion of themes that would appeal to students of higher education and academics.
2018 Top Community College Resource
This work would make an excellent addition to either a public, academic, or school library. The text is written to appeal to a wide range of readers, understandable to younger students or those with a general interest in the subject while also providing primary source material and discussion of themes that would appeal to students of higher education and academics.
2018 Top Community College Resource