1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456777103321

Autore

Bloom Clive

Titolo

Gothic histories : the taste for terror, 1764 to the present / / Clive Bloom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-283-27198-2

9786613271983

1-4411-5340-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

809.38729

Soggetti

Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain

Horror tales, English - History and criticism

English fiction - History and criticism

Gothic revival (Art)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Now Welcome the Night: The Origins of Gothic Culture -- Chapter Two: Every True Goth: From Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill to Thomas De Quincey's Opium Dreams -- Chapter Three: With Raven Wings: Ann Radcliffe, German Horrors and the Divine Marquis -- Chapter Four: Land of Shadows: Melmoth the Wanderer to Sweeney Todd -- Chapter Five: Dark Reflections in a Dull Mirror: Fuseli's The Nightmare and the Origins of Gothic Theatre -- Chapter Six: Desire and Loathing Strangely Mixed: Gothic Melodrama and The Phantom of the Opera -- Chapter Seven: Do You See It?: The Gothic and the Ghostly -- Chapter Eight: It's Alive: The Rise of the Gothic Movie -- Chapter Nine: After Midnight: Goth Culture, Vampire Games and the Irresistible Rise of Twilight -- Notes -- Primary Reading List -- Further Selected Readings in the Gothic -- Index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455626603321

Autore

W?ober Karl W

Titolo

Benchmarking in tourism and hospitality industries [[electronic resource] ] : the selection of benchmarking partners / / Karl W. W?ober

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, U.K., : CABI Pub., c2002

ISBN

1-280-82964-8

9786610829644

0-85199-756-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/791/068

Soggetti

Benchmarking (Management)

Hospitality industry - Management

Tourism - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-256).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Benchmarking Studies in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries; Chapter 3 Measuring Business Performance; Chapter 4 Methods for Estimating the Production Function; Chapter 5 The Austrian Hotel and Restaurant Panel; Chapter 6 A Mixture Regression Model; Chapter 7 Data Envelopment Analysis; Chapter 8 Evolutionary Data Envelopment Analysis; Chapter 9 Perspectives of Benchmarking Decision Support Systems in Tourism and Hospitality Management; Appendix A; Appendix B; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Benchmarking is a buzzword of the 1990's that desribes a method for comparing different companies, by measuring various data, performance and goals. This book focuses on the methodological aspects of the right selection of benchmarking partners.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255252603321

Titolo

'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies / / edited by Jonathan Greenberg, Nathan Waddell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-44541-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIII, 254 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

809.04

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Comparative literature

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Twentieth-Century Literature

Comparative Literature

Contemporary Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Brave New World as a Modern Utopia -- 2. Signs of the T -- 3. ‘That Learning Were Such a Filthy Thing' -- 4. The Pleasures of Dystopia -- 5. Huxley and Reproduction -- 6. What Huxley Got Wrong -- 7. Brave New World and Vanity Fair; Carey Snyder -- 8. The Brave New World of Mothering -- 9. Ethics in the Late Anthropocene -- 10. ‘My Hypothetical Islanders’ -- 11. ‘Words Without Reason’.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore connections between Brave New World and the nature of utopia, the 1930s American Technocracy movement, education and social control, pleasure, reproduction, futurology, inter-war periodical networks, motherhood, ethics and the Anthropocene, islands, and the



moral life. The volume also includes a ‘Foreword’ written by David Bradshaw, one of the world’s top Huxley scholars. Timely and consistently illuminating, this collection is essential reading for students, critics, and Huxley enthusiasts alike. .