The Mystery of the Sea

The Mystery of the SeaThe Mystery of the Sea (1902) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Combining occult elements with historical events involving the Spanish American War and the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada, The Mystery of the Sea is an informed mystery and political thriller that helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horrors reputation as a leading writer of the early twentieth century. On his first trip to Cruden Bay, a seaside village near Aberdeen,

“A personification of divine forgiveness

The resulting text provides fascinating and revealing insights for cultural and political historians

Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity

The recognition that moral qualities such as honesty

The legacy of this Cartesian metaphysics has been to reduce the body by turns to a static assemblage of parts and to a dumb show of movement

Sara El Sayed

Suzanne Richard of Gannon University

timely book is a qualitative inquiry that addresses this contradiction

In The Ends of Solidarity

Neil Lazarus

and poet whose well-articulated educational program was partly responsible for the relative ease with which Japan emerged from hundreds of years of self-imposed isolation and became a powerful modern nation

provides new insights into interregional mobility