Oceans at Home
Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
The Tale of the Living Vampyre
New Directions in Vampire Studies
The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life.
Introduction to Literature
Planning and Teaching a First-Year Course
The introductory book can be used as a catch-all for nearly everything first-year students may need to learn as they begin academic study.
Queering Visual Cultures
Re-Presenting Sexual Politics on Stage and Screen
It is imperative that analyses of popular cultural depictions and presentations of the queer are performed with the extensive intent towards encouraging a politics of inclusion and towards deterring the abjection of the queer subject in popular cultural portrayals.
Writing the Body in Motion
A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body in Motion offers introductory essays on the most commonly taught Canadian sport literature texts.
The Medium Is the Monster
Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English.
Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st-Century Film and Television
This volume contains discussions and dissections of monsters across multiple media and geographical origins and the reasons why we are so consumed by them.
Reading Vincent van Gogh
A Thematic Guide to the Letters
Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters.
Frankenstein
or, the Modern Prometheus
Student edition with an introduction by specialist Sylvia Hunt.
Gothic and Racism
The intricate link between Gothic and racism is often overlooked in favour of romance, beauty and adventure.
Dracula Invades England
The Text, the Context, and the Reader
This study answers unequivocally the question that Dracula critics have been trying to answer in the negative: Can Dracula be analysed from a postcolonial perspective? Yes!
“My Own Portrait in Writing”
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
An inspiring book that argues for Van Gogh’s letters to be placed alongside the literary work of Blake and Eliot.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Critical Study
As the first literary critical study of Vincent van Gogh’s letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh presents the painter’s letters as purposeful imaginative creations that chart van Gogh’s evolving conception of himself as an artist.
Selves and Subjectivities
Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture
The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.
On the Art of Being Canadian
Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.
Wild Words
Essays on Alberta Literature
As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right.