Författare: Stephen Knight

Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth o …

Der Wahnsinn beginnt … wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht! RETREAT – aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig Di Louie, Joe Mc Kinney und Stephen Knight! Nach wochenlangen Kämpfen quer durch …

A classic and highly controversial expose of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with an introduction by Martin Short, author of ’Inside the Brotherhood’.The Freemasons have long fascinated o …

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly o …

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly o …

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers’ imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few wo …

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A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which grappled w …

Starting with William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction–Poe’s Dupin stories, Conan Doyle’s The Advent …

Crime fiction–a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century–features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role …

Australian crime fiction has grown from the country’s origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistr …

Eine unbekannte, mysteriöse Krankheit verwandelt die Einwohner Bostons in sadistische, blutgierige, irre lachende Killer – die Crazies! Nur ein tapferes Infanterie-Bataillon kämpft gegen die irren in …

A fast paced novel about a Los Angeles Times crime reporter who takes on a local criminal kingpin billionaire Martin Nelson. Harry Walsh has been reporting on the murders of young women since the beg …

Although nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy …

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, …

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, …

A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite. This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British medievalism, re-exa …

This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British medievalism, re-examining its general perception as an elite and conservative tendency, the imposition of order from ab …

Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth o …

Attitudes towards `labour’, in the wake of the Black Death, shown to range from early protest literature to repressive authoritarianism. At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer seeme …

Essays examining the genre of medieval romance in its cultural Christian context, bringing out its chameleon-like character. The relationship between the Christianity of medieval culture and its most …

New essays on Chaucer’s engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century. How do critics, religious scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view Ch …

RETREAT – aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig Di Louie, Joe Mc Kinney und Stephen Knight! Der Wahnsinn beginnt … wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht! Als eine neuartige Krankheit die Bür …

Episode Zwei der spannungsgeladenen Serie RETREAT von drei der beliebtesten Zombie-Fiction-Autoren! Mit dem Lachen kommt der Tod … Die rauchenden Trümmer von Boston hinter sich lassend, führt Oberstl …

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, histo …

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, histo …

RETREAT – aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig Di Louie, Joe Mc Kinney und Stephen Knight! Der Wahnsinn beginnt … wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht! Eine unbekannte, mysteriöse Krankhei …

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers’ imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few wo …

A fast paced action packed international thriller and ultimate espionage adventure. The action moves from the Kremlin, to the biggest nuclear missile sites in the then Soviet Union and the United Sta …

This book begins by considering ecocritical approaches to literary texts and then moves to a discussion of the ways in which Welsh, French and English authors recount the Peredur/Perceval story. The …

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth-century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial worker …

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth-century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial worker …

Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton’s groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton’s influential scholarship has pioneered …

Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton’s groundbreaking research.Professor Helen Fulton’s influential scholarship has pioneered …

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