<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>






<rss version="2.0">
	<channel>
    	<title>Top 100 records that match your search results </title>
    	<description> Displaying the top 100 results that match your query.</description>
    	<link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6662&amp;N=3+5228</link>
  		 
          <item>
            <title>Romance authors : a research guide
            by Sheehan, Sarah E.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1211819</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Romanticism : a very short introduction
            by Ferber, Michael.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1199287</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Reading Nora Roberts
            by Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053545</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The handbook of the gothic
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1043583</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>John Keats
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=682729</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Bram Stoker : a literary life
            by Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=698420</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The dark-hunter companion
            by Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=744173</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Victorian literature and culture
            by Moran, Maureen.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692063</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The monsters : Mary Shelley and the curse of Frankenstein
            by Hoobler, Dorothy.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641795</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Romanticism : an Oxford guide
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=616150</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>This book is a guide of the Romantic field. It includes 46 chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts - Romantic Orientations, Reading Romanticism, Romantic Forms and Romantic Afterlives --Provided by publisher.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>English romantic poetry
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=504715</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Bram Stokers Dracula
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431483</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the authors life, and an index</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Gothic writers : a critical and bibliographical guide
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=399986</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Examines more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King providing critical overviews and extensive bibliographical information.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Stephen King
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431481</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>- A biographical and critical review of the worlds most important writers- Expert analysis by Harold Bloom- A wealth of information on the writers that are most commonly read in high schools, colleges, and universities</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Revisiting Stephen King : a critical companion
            by Russell, Sharon A., 1941-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=430343</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>In keeping with the series format, Russell (communication and womens studies, Indiana State U.) begins with a biographical sketch of King and a review of the horror genre he writes in. Then she details nine novels, sometimes in pairs, from the 1996 Desperation to the 2001 Dreamcatcher.   Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The official Nora Roberts companion
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=486517</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The Essential Stephen King : a ranking of the greatest novels, short stories, movies and other creations of the worlds most popular writer
            by Spignesi, Stephen J.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=373314</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>The worlds leading expert on Stephen King (Entertainment Weekly) ranks 101 greatest creations of the man he calls our greatest living author. A synopsis and review is featured for each chosen work. Illustrations.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Dark dreamers : facing the masters of fear
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=375541</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The Stephen King universe : a guide to the worlds of the king of horror
            by Wiater, Stan.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=373315</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>This unique work of popular criticism of the stories and characters of author Stephen King embraces and explains the entire body of Kings work, and reveals his creative processes. The authors also demonstrate Kings impact on popular culture, and includes a chronology of the authors life and career.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>A historical guide to Edgar Allan Poe
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=368352</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the republic of letters in the United States. This Historical Guide contains an introduction that considers the tensions between Poes otherwordly settings and his historically marked representations of violence, as well as a capsule biography situating Poe in his historical context. The subsequent essays in this book cover such topics as Poe and the American Publishing Industry, Poes Sensationalism, his relationships to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Readings on the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=380472</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The modern weird tale
            by Joshi, S. T., 1958-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=400267</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from those who have obtained merely transient popular renown. Accordingly, the author regards the complex, subtle work of Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein, and Thomas Ligotti as considerably superior to the best-sellers of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, and Anne Rice. Other writers such as William Peter Blatty, Thomas Tryon, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris are also discussed. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a pioneering attempt to chart the development of weird fiction over the past half-century.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>American romanticism
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=315993</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Readings on Frankenstein
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=326694</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Provides teachers and students with a range of information and opinion on the novel and its author. Contributors are English professors at leading colleges and universities, literary scholars and critics, theater and film historians, and biographers of Shelley. Most essays deal specifically with the original novel and its conceptions, sources, meanings, and themes. Other essays look at film and stage adaptations and the degree to which they remain true to the original. Includes essay introductions and a chronology.  Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The complete idiots guide to getting your romance published
            by Beard, Julie.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=392283</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>CIG to Getting Your Romance Published, written by a successful romance novelist, teaches aspiring writers everything they need know about this popular, highly successful genre. From plotting characterization to approaching agents and editors, the book gives readers a head start toward publishing their own novels.-- Love sells -- why those little books are so popular-- The rules of romance writing -- respect the genre, focus on relationships, and more-- The aspiring romance writers checklist-- The subgenres -- historical, contemporary, time-travel, futuristic, paranormal, multicultural-- Finding your voice as a writer-- Pacing checklist-- Undercovers -- sex and the single (or married) writer-- Punching up your prose -- editing and rewriting-- Hiring an agent and finding an editor-- Submitting your manuscript-- Book covers and pseudonyms-- Promotion tips-- The key to a long-lasting writing career-- Romancing the publishing industry</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Secret windows : essays and fiction on the craft of writing
            by King, Stephen, 1947-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=472397</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=330711</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Mary Shelleys first novel has established itself as one of modernitys most compelling and ominous myths. Frankenstein poignantly captures the spirit of the early 1800s as an age of transition tragically divided between scientific progress and religious conservatism, revolutionary reform and conformist reaction. This Guide encapsulates the most important critical reactions to a novel that straddles the realms of both high literature and popular culture. The selections shed light on Frankensteins historical and socio-political relevance, its innovative representations of science, gender, and identity, as well as its problematic cultural location between academic critique and creative production. Ranging from the first reviews in 1818 to postmodern readings of the mid-1990s, the Guide illuminates one of British literatures most spectacular novels.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Fantasy and horror : a critical and historical guide to literature, illustration, film, TV, radio, and the Internet
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=285607</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>A comprehensive best books listing (plus similar tabulations for film) reflects the views of expert contributors, outside readers, and several best books lists.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>William Wordsworth
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=393808</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>The great poets through history -- Chaucer, Milton, Wordsworth, Whitman, Eliot, and others -- are studied in this new series edited by noted literary critic Harold Bloom. Blooms Major Poets brings together in-depth analysis of each poets most important works with the best critical interpretations of each poem. Blooms Major Poets is the perfect introduction to poetry analysis for high school or college students.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Classic love &amp; romance literature : an encyclopedia of works, characters, authors, &amp; themes
            by Brackett, Virginia.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292628</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>If you want to see how men and women have looked at love, and each other, over the centuries, just open this endlessly readable encyclopedia: an A-to-Z guide to the literature of love. From Romeo and Juliet to Rebecca, nearly 300 entries treat scores of the most memorable novels and plays, providing information on authors, works, characters, and themes. Coverage is fair and square: Men and women get equal time; both literary and popular fiction are treated with respect; and minority voices are clearly heard. Thoroughly illustrated, cross-referenced, and indexed, Classic Love and Romance Literature accomplishes what the best reference books always do: It sends you back to the originals.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>You can write a romance
            by Estrada, Rita Clay.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283282</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Superb instruction for writing in this popular genre, encompassing everythingfrom sentence structure to submissions.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Romance fiction : a guide to the genre
            by Ramsdell, Kristin, 1940-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=277783</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Edgar Allan Poe : comprehensive research and study guide
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=380467</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>North American romance writers
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=290313</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>In this work, Kay Mussell and Johanna Tunon collect essays by contemporary North American romance authors who have come to prominence, directly or indirectly, as a result of the shake-up of the field that started in the early 1980s. In essays on their own work, each of the writers describes her take on the romance novel today and how she has adapted the form to accommodate her own voice and concerns. Collectively, these writers have used the romance genre to address a broad range of social issues and problems. Presenting these essays together provides a window into the creativity and originality of some of the writers who have shaped romances since the dramatic changes of the early 1980s.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>St. James guide to horror, ghost &amp; gothic writers
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=88142</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Stephen King
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=85675</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>A collection of critical essays discussing the work of the prolific horror writer Stephen King.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>A companion to Romanticism
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=337152</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Divided into four parts--Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1832; Readings; Genres and Modes; and Issues and Debates--the COMPANION provides readers new to the subject with key bearings and a foundation of study. Includes 22 readings of canonical and post-canonical texts. An introductory survey from an internationally known group of scholars.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Gothic horror : a readers guide from Poe to King and beyond
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=86999</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Vampire readings : an annotated bibliography
            by Altner, Patricia, 1948-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=162818</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Whats so scary about R.L. Stine?
            by Jones, Patrick, 1961-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291383</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Whats So Scary About R.L. Stine? examines the most popular yet most controversial author of books for young people. R.L. Stine has written joke collections, multiple storyline books, and even bubblegum cards. He helped invent the young adult thriller with Blind Date, then gained unprecedented notoriety with his Fear Street series - but it was his Goosebumps books for middle school kids that catapulted him to stardom as both a best-selling author and one most challenged by censors. Opponents urged that Stines books be banned, arguing that young people should not be exposed to Stines brand of horror. Despite Stines success in encouraging reluctant readers, his critics targeted his books, style, genre, and motives. Answering Stines critics with a thoughtful analysis of Stines body of work, Jones traces Stines literary output and provides analysis of plot, character, and style to demonstrate Stines place in the tradition of respected young adult authors.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Dracula : between tradition and modernism
            by Senf, Carol A.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=92907</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Since its publication in 1897, Dracula has never been out of print in English and has inspired literally hundreds of popular films. In fact, this remarkable work, like its predecessor Frankenstein, almost immediately established itself as an important modern myth. It explores various fin de siecle anxieties about race, class, and gender as well as tensions about the place of science and technology in the modern world, all questions that continue to haunt readers a century later.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Victorian quest romance : Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling, and Conan Doyle
            by Fraser, Robert, 1947-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=290156</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Late Victorian quest romance has recently attracted renewed attention from critics. Much of this interest has centred on its politics of gender, and its vision of Empire. This book prefers to view the genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology. Starting with a discussion of the nature of romance, it goes on to interpret the romances of Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle as encounters with lost or buried pasts. By describing such encounters with remote places and times, so it argues, these authors were asking their readers disconcerting questions about humankind, and about their own cultures institutions and beliefs. The book ends by considering the implications of such a view for the whole colonial enterprize.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Dracula : the connoisseurs guide
            by Wolf, Leonard.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=133364</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The romantics : England in a revolutionary age
            by Thompson, E. P. 1924-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=236469</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Thompson galvanized audiences in New York and in England with his unique blend of historical analysis and literary acuity as he examined the turbulent 1790s through the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and that of such less well-known authors as William Godwin and John Thelwall. Prepared for publication by his widow, Dorothy Thompson, The Romantics contains all of E. P. Thompsons original texts and notes, as well as an overview of the ideas behind his study of the period. Combining a historians intimate knowledge of contemporary politics with a close and sympathetic reading of the writings themselves, Thompson traces the intellectual influences that gave rise to the English Romantic movement, and examines the societal pressures - paternalism, authoritarianism, respect for tradition, and the French Revolution - that informed it.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Writing horror fiction
            by Smith, Guy N. 1939-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=285545</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>This writers guide looks at the development of horror fiction and explains how to write short stories, graphic novels and horror fiction for children and adults. Beginning with the initial idea the author shows how to build on it, developing characters and plot. There are ideas for selecting and approaching publishers and information about contracts and publication.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The literature of terror : a history of gothic fictions from 1765 to the present day
            by Punter, David.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=329022</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>The text provides an interpretative base for readers seeking a greater understanding of gothic writing and the literature of terror.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Critical essays on The house of the seven gables
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=102109</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>In search of Dracula : the history of Dracula and vampires
            by McNally, Raymond T., 1931-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=153484</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Until recently most people thought Dracula was a creation of film and fiction. With the original publication of In Search of Dracula, the actual historical figure of Prince Vlad of Transylvania - better known as Vlad the Impaler - was rediscovered, and readers were introduced to one of the darkest figures of Eastern European history and folklore. Out of print for more than a decade, In Search of Dracula has now been completely rewritten and updated. This new edition includes entries from Bram Stokers newly discovered diaries, the amazing tale of Nicolae Ceausescus attempt to make Vlad a Romanian national hero, and a comprehensive examination of recent adaptations of the Dracula story in novels, on stage, and on screen. For a member of the undead, Dracula has enjoyed a vibrant and ubiquitous life for the past century. Even more enduring and powerful a creation than Sherlock Holmes - with whom he shares similar late-Victorian popular literary origins - the Count continues to fascinate with his distinctive mixture of blood, sex, and death.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Anne Rice
            by Roberts, Bette B.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=256960</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>In this critical appraisal of the novels created by the contemporary queen of the Gothic, Bette B. Roberts argues that Anne Rice is more than a popular writer. Reinventing the vampire figure to reflect on the human condition, Rice is both philosopher and social commentator. Her vampires are a far cry from the leering, black-caped caricature on a lonely quest for blood. Unique in the history of vampire lore, they are a feeling community of creatures, each driven by the very human needs for power, recognition, a sense of purpose, and love. Roberts traces the history of Gothic fiction and places Rice in the rich tradition of those writers who have used the genre to undertake what one scholar calls a searching analysis of human concerns. Like Mary Shelley in Frankenstein and Bram Stoker in Dracula, Rice uses the supernatural to explore the realms of human experience that disturb or confuse. For many writers of Gothic fiction - including Rice - this has meant examining the nature of evil, of sexuality, of death, of the unconscious. Rice adds to her inquiry the existential, modernist quest for meaning in a complex, impassive world. This quest, as well as Rices fascination with the imagery of the Catholic church, her belief in the transforming power of sexual engagement, and her use of place as a metaphor for her characters states of mind, appears in varying degrees in all of Rices work: the Gothic fiction (the four books that compose The Vampire Chronicles as well as the nonvampiric tales of the supernatural), the historical novels, even the erotica, which Rice first published under pseudonyms. Throughout her analysis Roberts cites the influence of Rices life on her writing, particularly her Catholic girlhood, her marriage of more than 30 years to poet Stan Rice, the loss of the couples five-year-old daughter to leukemia, and Rices attachment to certain locales, especially San Francisco, where she attended college and graduate school, and New Orleans, where she now lives with her husband and son. Roberts provides a plot synopsis for each of Rices novels through The Tale of the Body Thief published in 1992, and subjects each to analysis of Rices narrative technique, use of language, character development, and thematic concerns. Hers is the first book to offer a critical assessment of the body of Rices work. While some critics still dismiss Rices efforts as the near-equivalent of dime-store novels in Bram Stokers nineteenth century, Roberts argues that Rice has proved herself more than capable of proffering rich material for scholarly investigation as well as the private pleasures of a good read.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Reading from the heart : women, literature, and the search for true love
            by Juhasz, Suzanne, 1942-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=88681</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Passionate readers know who they are and since they always recognize one another, they will immediately identify Suzanne Juhasz as one of their own. Reading from the Heart is an engrossing exploration of the needs and desires that lead to a reading habit. Part paean to the reading life, part autobiography, it shows that reading and real life are not warring enterprises but interrelated experiences, each composed of need and fantasy, yearning and satisfaction. As every reading woman knows, novels are not escapes from reality but spaces of the possible, where they can experiment with other ways of feeling and being. Interweaving the story of her journey to self-discovery with her girlhood infatuation with Little Women, her adolescent immersion in Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and her adult experiences reading Gloria Naylors Mama Day and Isabel Millers famous lesbian novel Patience and Sarah, Juhasz convincingly demonstrates that the romance plot of finding, losing, and regaining true love is as much about identity as it is about love. And she makes the provocative argument that womens fantasy of true love is a version of mother love, in which the hero of a novel offers the unconditional, maternal acceptance that enables the heroine to develop an authentic self. Like Mary Catherine Batesons Composing a Life and Carolyn Heilbruns Writing a Womans Life, Reading from the Heart is a personal book that transcends the purely personal. It will be a touchstone for women who love to read and believe that reading can change their lives.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Reading Gothic fiction : a Bakhtinian approach
            by Howard, Jacqueline.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=237899</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>This is the first full-length study of Gothic to be written from the perspective of Bakhtinian theory. Dr Howard uses Bakhtins concepts of heteroglossia and dialogism in specific historical analyses of key works of the genre. Her discussions of Ann Radcliffes Mysteries of Udolpho, Matthew Lewiss The Monk, Jane Austens Northanger Abbey, and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein demonstrate that the discursive ambiguity of these novels is not inherently subversive, but that the political force of particular discourses is contingent upon their interaction with other discourses in the reading process. This position enables the author to intervene in feminist discussions of Gothic, which have claimed it as a specifically female genre. Dr Howard suggests a way in which feminists can appropriate Bakhtin to make politically effective readings, while acknowledging that these readings do not exhaust the novels possibilities of meaning and reception. Drawing on the most up-to-date debates in literary theory, this is a sophisticated and scholarly analysis of a genre that has consistently challenged literary criticism.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Stephen Kings America
            by Davis, Jonathan P.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=243388</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Few can argue with the unprecedented success author Stephen King has established in the two decades following the publication of his first novel, Carrie. He has built a reputation as the worlds premier storyteller, and his name has become commonplace within the home. American publishers, producers, and fans have all capitalized on his unquestionable ability to entertain. But it is this same success that has often overshadowed the elements of his fiction that contribute to the canvas of literature established in the twentieth century by authors such as William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Flannery OConnor. All have lasting reputations as masters of the American literary tradition. Stephen Kings America aims to heighten awareness of the numerous American issues that resonate throughout Kings fiction, issues that bear universal application to the evolution of the human condition. Within his stories can be found a diverse study of all that makes life in America, land of the free, unique: the struggle for moral health; leaving the splendor of childhood at the corruption of innocence; an advanced technology that often exceeds its understood potentials; the rewards and sacrifices within a free-market society; the delicate balance between autonomy and collective social harmony; and the simple solution to survival in an adverse world. Take a closer look at these subtexts and discover a new dimension in the reading of Stephen Kings fiction. By focusing on these issues, and by presenting four rich interviews with men close to the work of Stephen King, Stephen Kings America lifts the veil that is the surface of his stories, shining a pleasantly distinct light on the sources that are both his subliminal and apparent strengths as a modern author.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The Cambridge companion to British romanticism
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=169459</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>This companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Romantic literature. Eleven original essays provide readers with clear and coherent access to the historical roots, intellectual ferment, and cultural range of British Romanticism, together with a chronology of major publications and events, and an extensive guide to further reading.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The return of the visible in British Romanticism
            by Galperin, William H.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=149845</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>In this path-breaking study William Galperin offers a major revisionist reading of Romanticism that emphasizes the visible - as opposed to visionary - impulse in British Romantic poetry and prose. Employing a wide variety of theoretical insights, Galperin shows not only that the visual impulse is central to an understanding of Romanticism but also that the Romantic preoccupation with the world seen forms an integral part of the prehistory of cinema. Galperin challenges the assumption that a single philosophy characterized the art and culture of high Romanticism. Instead, he argues, the culture of the period - both high and low - was a site of competing ideas. From the poetry of Wordsworth and Byron to the painting of John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich to the precinematic institutions of the panorama and the diorama, The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism lends new vigor to ongoing debates about the nature of Romanticism lends new vigor to ongoing debates about the nature of Romanticism, nineteenth-century culture, and the origins of cinema.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Frontier gothic : terror and wonder at the frontier in American literature
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=36461</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>This collection of thirteen essays on American literature and culture defines and examines a gothic tradition in frontier writing. As the imaginative border between the known and the unknown, the frontier subject has provided a bridge to gothic domains and has been used by writers from every period in American history to explore social, ethnic, and gender frontiers, as well as frontiers of art and language. The frontier gothic world, for all of its ambiguity and ambivalence, is nevertheless immanent, palpable, and undeniably present, and it impinges significantly upon the conventional world, forcing that world to change, to adapt, to transform itself or be destroyed. The essays consider canonical writers such as Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville; they also discuss Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edward Abbey, William Gibson, Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Silko, and Rudolfo Anaya. Also included is a previously uncollected short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Giant Wistaria, discussed by essayist Gary Scharnhorst as A Hieroglyph of the Female Frontier Gothic. In American literature, the frontier gothic tradition expresses the spirit of a nation proud of its pragmatic realism and hungry for romance, vigorously pursuing a manifest destiny in the light of day, yet troubled and enraptured by gothic intimations of twilight apparitions, midnight curses, and the demons that haunt the last hour before dawn.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The Critical response to Bram Stoker
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=129986</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>New essays on Hawthornes major tales
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=237910</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American literature. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the works composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of the major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present. This overview is followed by a group of new essays, each specially commissioned from a leading scholar in the field, which together constitute a forum of interpretive methods and prominent contemporary ideas on the text. There are also helpful guides to further reading. Specifically designed for undergraduates, the series will be a powerful resource for anyone engaged in the critical analysis of major American novels and other important texts. New Essays on Hawthornes Major Tales examines in detail some of Hawthornes most important and most beloved stories such as Young Goodman Brown, Roger Malvins Burial, The Ministers Black Veil, My Kinsman, Major Molineux, Rappaccinis Daughter, and Ethan Brand. The essayists make fresh attempts to probe the complex meanings of these much discussed works, utilizing a variety of contemporary critical methods. Michael Colacurcio argues for Hawthornes interest in history; David Leverenz traces Hawthornes mythopoetic interest in damnation and relates it to the tensions of Hawthornes own time; Carol Bensick defends and admits the limitations of the identification of allusion in Hawthorne; Edgar Dryden explores Hawthornes sense of traditional genre and relates it to modern hermeneutics; and Rita Gollin connects patterns of language with the psychological and biographic. Millicent Bells introduction analyzes Hawthornes early aspirations, places his writing in the context of contemporary audience expectations, and surveys the history of critical response to the tales from the writers own time to our own.--BOOK JACKET.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Popular Arthurian traditions
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=140470</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>British Romantic novelists, 1789-1832
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=150531</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Dangerous men &amp; adventurous women : romance writers on the appeal of the romance
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28258</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description>Romance readers and writers will find this collection of essays by some of the most popular romance novelists writing today unique and fascinating. For the first time, these authors explain why romance is so popular, reveal why they write in this genre, explore the unheralded benefits of reading and writing romances and much more.</description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>British romantic prose writers, 1789-1832.
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=150600</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Clive Barkers shadows in Eden
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=167315</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>British romantic prose writers, 1789-1832.
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=150607</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The descent of the imagination : postromantic culture in the later novels of Thomas Hardy
            by Moore, Kevin Z.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=211018</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>English romantic poetry : an introduction to the historical context and the literary scene
            by Everest, Kelvin.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=241786</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The Stephen King companion
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=82708</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>William Blake and the language of Adam
            by Essick, Robert N.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=239920</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The Regency companion
            by Laudermilk, Sharon H., 1949-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=25829</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Uncontainable romanticism : Shelley, Bronte, Kleist
            by Jacobs, Carol.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=188949</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The Arthurian handbook
            by Lacy, Norris J.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=18439</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>William Wordsworth and the age of English romanticism
            by Wordsworth, Jonathan, 1932-2006
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=75916</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The scattered portions : William Blakes biological symbolism
            by Baine, Rodney M.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=233745</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>H.P. Lovecraft, a critical study
            by Burleson, Donald R.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=25544</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>English literature--romanticism to 1945
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=474601</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The development of American romance : the sacrifice of relation
            by Bell, Michael Davitt.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=251707</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>The Endurance of Frankenstein : essays on Mary Shelleys novel
            
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33669</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Blake, prophet against empire : a poets interpretation of the history of his own times
            by Erdman, David V.
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=238542</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		   
          <item>
            <title>Natural supernaturalism; tradition and revolution in romantic literature
            by Abrams, M. H. 1912-
            </title>
            <link>http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171607</link>
            <pubDate></pubDate>
            <description></description>
          </item>
		  
    </channel>
  </rss>

