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American Folk Horrors

The first book to analyze the distinct folk horror of the Americas.While the majority of writing about folk horror focuses on the British tradition, American Folk Horrors centers the key folk horror texts…

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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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Laura Vilardell
Books Across Nations

University of Wales Press

Features more than 2,000 manuscripts from the Joan Gili Catalan Collection at the University of London for the first time.Long before the digital era, Joan Gili spent sixty years cultivating taste. The Do…

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Coasts and the Gothic

University of Wales Press

Examines the longstanding relationship between coastal environments and the Gothic imagination.Coasts are vital but often unsettled sites in ecological, political, national, and cultural terms. Coasts and…

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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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Heidi Backes
Fascist Female Gothic

University of Wales Press

Examines the psychology of fascism and its intrinsic relationship with the Gothic through the close study of propagandistic narratives by Spanish fascist women during the 1930s and 1940s.With close readin…

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Horror Spoofs and Parodies

University of Wales Press

This edited collection explores the world of the horror parody, examining how people take and transform the works that make us scream into ones that make us laugh. It explores famous parodies such as the …

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Alan J. Kellner
Indigeneity in Immanuel Kant's Global Politics

University of Wales Press

Challenges current philosophical trends by reevaluating Immanual Kant's views on Indigenous peoples.Immanuel Kant believed in progress. He thought humanity regressed when it passed from nature to civiliza…

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Philip Line
Introducing the Medieval Raven

University of Wales Press

Provides a comprehensive look into the significance of the raven in medieval European thought and imagination.To this day, the raven is associated with foreboding, a product of its croaking call, black pl…

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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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Middlebrow Gothic

University of Wales Press

Highlights the work of middlebrow authors who employ Gothic conventions to interrogate and subvert the idealization of domestic family and marital life following the trauma of the First and Second World W…

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Laura R. Kremmel
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination

University of Wales Press

This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities …

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Renato Cristi
Schmitt, Hobbes, Hegel

University of Wales Press

Draws connections between three major philosophers to better understand the origin of Schmitt's authoritarian liberalism.Schmitt, Hobbes, Hegel centers a pivotal period in German constitutional history, w…

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Samantha Hind
Speculative Flesh Ecologies

University of Wales Press

This book introduces the original rubric of 'speculative flesh ecologies' by bringing together the concept of 'flesh', the ethical approach of 'indistinction', and a strand of twenty-first-century specula…

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The Mexican Feminist Movement

University of Wales Press

Refutes contemporary stereotypes about Mexico by sharing first-hand experiences from men who support the feminist movement in their country.The Mexican Feminist Movementresponds to the Trumpian generaliza…

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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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Urban Legends

University of Wales Press

Explores the particular significance of the physical spaces that are haunted by urban legends.Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism, and cultural geography, this collection charts an u…

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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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