Explore the vast range of titles available.

In order to address these societal shifts, these notable authors took to the veils of Gothic Literature to express their opinions of these advancements, as well as to work to help make sense of this new world for people living during that time. (Pinar, Reynolds, Slattery, & Taubman, 2006, p. 540) Monsters are a way to \"deviate\" from societal norms, to critique dominant attitudes and perspectives, and to create new modes of being or becoming-the authors and readers identifying with the fictional possibilities of the monsters they/we create. Mary Shelley's first tragedy struck her immediately in life, as her mother died giving birth to her, leaving her in the care of her father who would, from an early age, expose her to revolutionary ideas and connect her with authors and notables along the depths of Lord Byron, in whose company she would write Frankenstein many years later (Curran, 2009). After the Protestant Reformation, the authority of the Catholic Church wilted, and people began focusing their attention on other areas of scientific study (Christy, 2013).

The American literary historical record shows that two of the late nineteenth century's most lauded writers, Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson, had a single face-to-face meeting but one whose substance went unreported. Here, Doyle examines what happened during this meeting and proceeds to reconstitute what was very likely several hours of the most scintillating talk in history.

CRIME FICTION Cosby's latest grim and powerful crime novel follows Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff to be elected in Charon County, VA, as he confronts the corrupt machinations of town politics and neo-Confederate protesters while navigating a sickening case involving the murder of Black children. BIOGRAPHY Narrator Dion Graham offers a fluid, perfectly timed performance of journalist and biographer Eig's expansive, balanced study of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. [...]when Jamison accompanies his father on a road trip to his high school reunion in Missouri, he realizes that despite their differences, their relationship rests on an unshakable foundation of love and respect. Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector.

[...] in a series of scattered comments on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment made during the 1960s, the Scottish existentialist R. D. Laing turned to literary representations of ego collapse in order to demonstrate the need for an upheaval in our understanding of family politics.6 This peculiar tradition of sympathetic spectatorship is nowhere more apparent than when the subject is that of dysfunctional family relationships.7 I From Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1806), to Husserl's mature writings and beyond, phenomenologists have been concerned to explain the philosophical odyssey from the natural attitude to the phenomenological attitude of philosophy itself.