“andrew shepard smith”

Andrew SmithThis introductory study provides a thorough grounding in both the history of Gothic literature and the way in which Gothic texts have been (and can be) critically read. The book opens with a chronology and an introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by four ch... More

"The first complete anthology of lute music contained within Thomas Maces historic treatise Musicks Monument (1676), transcribed and edited for classical guitar by Andrew Shepard-Smith. An exquisite and intriguing collection of early English Baroque lute music containing twelve preludes, eight compl... More

McDonald's founder Ray Kroc once said, "It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun." The hamburger has been a staple of American culture for the last century, both a source of gluttonous joy and a recurrent obstacle to healthy eating. Now the full beauty of the burger in all... More

The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this e... More

Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory, this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new and significant theorization of the Gothic. The central premise is that the nineteenth-century Gothic produced a radical critique of accounts of sublimity and Freudian psychoanalysis. This boo... More

Reminiscent of "The Outsiders" and "All the Pretty Horses," Smith debuts with a story of a group of friends--teenage cowboys who live in ranch country--and a summer that changes their lives forever.The summer before Troy Stotts turns seventeen, his mother dies. Troy and his father barely speak, comm... More

"Victorian Demons" provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the "fin de siecle," It analyzes how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonized in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideolo... More