Romances and Gothic Tales/Albert of Werdendorff; or, The Midnight Embrace

From: Gothic Studies | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Romances and Gothic Tales (Concord, Zittaw Press, 2004), ISBN 0975339559, ii + 57 pp., $8.95 pb, and Albert of Werdendorff; or, The Midnight Embrace, by Sarah Wilkinson (Concord, Zittaw Press, 2003), ISBN: 0975339508, ii + 34 pp., $8.95 pb.

Zittaw Press is a comparatively recent and highly praiseworthy venture, founded upon the expertise of two scholars in the field, one of whom has a specific research interest in trade Gothic and the library culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Press aims to produce a representative series of Gothic Bluebooks, thus filling a ...

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