The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel
George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination".
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party.
George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination".
... Ingelow, and Rossetti as they transported their own child heroines into realms of the forbidden. ... Carroll's great Alice books appropriated the central plot of this anthology: a little girl's journey into forbidden countries.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
Wuthering Heights at once fascinates and frustrates the reader with the highly charged, passionate and problematic relationships it portrays. This study provides a key to the text by examining the...
What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party.
... Ode : Intimations of Immortality " together with poems such as " Laodamía , ” “ Dion , ” “ Ode to Lycoris , ” and “ Ode to Duty " in a section entitled " Poems Akin to the Antique , and Odes , " thereby directly and knowingly ...
U. C. Knoepflmacher examines here for the first time in sequence George Eliot's development of increasingly sophisticated forms of fiction in her efforts to reconcile the two conflicting orientations in her thought.