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Barbara Comyns

A savage innocence

By: Avril Horner

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The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels that are unique in the English language. Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist’s model to restoring pianos. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society. While working as a housekeeper in her mid-thirties, Comyns began transforming the bleak episodes of her life into compelling fictions streaked with surrealism and deadpan humour. The Vet’s Daughter (1959), championed by Graham Greene, brought her fame, although her use of the gothic and macabre divided readers and reviewers. This biography not only excavates Comyns’s life but also reclaims her fiction, providing a timely reassessment of her literary contribution. It sheds new light on a remarkable author who deftly captured the complexities of human life.

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264

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Manchester University Press

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1526173735

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9781526173737

Le Gothic

Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America

By: Avril Horner

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Le Gothic

Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America

By: Avril Horner

This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form.

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253

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Springer

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0230582818

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9780230582811

Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States

By: Avril L. de la Cretaz,Paul K. Barten

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Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States

By: Avril L. de la Cretaz,Paul K. Barten

Filling a long-standing need for a desk reference that synthesizes current research, Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States reviews and discusses the impact of forest management, agriculture, and urbanization. The book provides a gateway to the diverse scientific literature that is urgently needed

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342

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CRC Press

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1420008722

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9781420008722

Nonmammalian Animal Models for Biomedical Research

By: Avril D. Woodhead

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Nonmammalian Animal Models for Biomedical Research

By: Avril D. Woodhead

This book provides essential knowledge and informa-tion required to adequately assess useful alternatives from among the lower vertebrates and the invertebrates. This volume highlights unfamiliar and underde-veloped organisms that have the potential to become very satisfactory surrogates for biomedical research. A practical guide aimed at disseminating information to researchers about new models, this work provides compara-tive biomedical studies at many levels of the phyloge-netic ladder.

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408

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CRC Press

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0849347637

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9780849347634

Gothic and the Comic Turn

By: Avril Horner,Sue Zlosnik

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Gothic and the Comic Turn

By: Avril Horner,Sue Zlosnik

Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.

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216

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0333771516

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9780333771518

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Barbara Comyns

Barbara Comyns

Le Gothic

Le Gothic

Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States

Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States

Nonmammalian Animal Models for Biomedical Research

Nonmammalian Animal Models for Biomedical Research

Gothic and the Comic Turn

Gothic and the Comic Turn

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