Nearly a hundred years after its debut in 1897, Dracula is still one of the most popular of all Gothic narratives, always in print and continually adapted for stage and screen. Paradoxically, David Glover suggests, this very success has obscured the historical conditions and authorial circumstances of the novel’s production. By way of a long overdue return to the novels, short stories, essays, journalism, and correspondence of Bram Stoker, Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals ...

The 1905 Aliens Act was the first modern law to restrict immigration to British shores. In this book, David Glover asks how it was possible for Britain, a nation that had prided itself on offering asylum to refugees, to pass such legislation. Tracing the ways that the legal notion of the 'alien' became a national-racist epithet indistinguishable from the figure of 'the Jew', Glover argues that the literary and popular entertainments of fin de siècle Britain perpetuated a culture of xenopho...

Cocktail Conversations is one of the most relevant books coming out since the Bible. You will be hard pressed to find a book that everyone can identify with when it involves relationships, friendships, family, work, health, education, loyalty, mistrust, child drama, and the dating game. This book will address seventy-seven scenarios and much feedback given back from followers of Cocktail Conversations; these perspectives are very diverse, and they force you to see different viewpoints to t...

Pour la première fois, le texte original de ce roman fantastique de Stoker est publié dans son intégralité !Assailli dans une pièce entièrement close par quelque chose ou quelqu’un, un éminent égyptologue est plongé dans un étrange état cataleptique. Puis, peu après, au même endroit, certains objets précieux disparaissent pendant que d’autres reviennent dans de troublantes et inexplicables conditions. Et, tandis que le mystère grandit, d’autres malédictions resurgi...

The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts surrounding gender from their historical inception to contemporary debatesdiscus...

Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from those which accept and reproduce empire's dominant self-images to scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited upon its subjects and the pri...

From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the Jackass movies, there was little that the comedic reality TV star wouldn't do.Whether it was stapling his nutsack to his leg or diving into a pool full of elephant crap, almost nothing was out of bounds for Stephen "Steve-O" Glover. As the stunts got crazier, his life kept pace. He developed a crippling addiction to drugs and alcohol, and an obses...

After hearing these fateful words, "I am sorry, but you have cancer," young Navy officer David Glover turned to triathlon to prove to himself that although he had cancer, cancer did not have him.In Full Time & Sub-Nine, David shares his stories about growing up, attending the Naval Academy, his battle with cancer, becoming a triathlete and the winning strategies that earned him his first four overall wins and a sub-nine hour performance at the IRONMAN® distance while working a full...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

Det sena 1900-talet kan kallas för marknadens tid. Man skulle kunna beskriva det som att marknaden sprängde sina ramar och skapade ett nytt historiskt moraliskt rum. Hur gick det till och vad fick det för konsekvenser att marknaden som institution, ideal och metafor fick en central roll i det svenska samhällslivet?Den nya marknadslogiken gjorde djupa avtryck i politiken, men den förändrade också människors vardagsliv, språkbruk och referensramar. I Marknadens tid analysera...

**Stephen "Steve-O" Glover—social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass—delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep thriving long after you should be dead.“I read this book all in one sitting. I am first of all blown away by Steve-O’s continued sobriety and also his honesty and complete transparency in writing this wonderful book. Eternally proud of my brother.” ―Johnny Knoxville, co-creator and star of

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and race in the era of increased globalization. Whether intended or unintended, many government pol...