A priest flees from the authorities who are trying to eradicate the Catholic church in a Mexican state, encountering various people in need of redemption.

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper.

Contributors to this text discuss what it is to be British or Irish, and how people come to describe themselves as such. The study offers a interdisciplinary comparative analysis of the cultural formation of the Atlantic Archipelago.

In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming explore the sources of Britain's variegated folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly unrelated tales developed.

Through contextualized readings of the major works of Blake, Shelley, and Byron, this book demonstrates that Satanism enabled Romantic writers to interpret their tempestuous age: it provided them a mythic medium for articulating the hopes ...

Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art.