Books
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Surprising Transformations of Unchaining Beastiality
This article examines images of beasts and bestiality in selected fictional and non-fictional writing about the city produced during the…
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Gothic Incest: Uncles, Thefts, Violence and Sexual Threats
Gothic Incestuous relationships between uncles and nieces abound in Gothic fiction; in fact, even in novels where the primary incestuous…
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The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural
This article explores the transmission of tales of the supernatural during the very long eighteenth-century (between c.1660 and 1832).
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Vampire Literature, Mythology and Fear of Immortal Affairs
Vampires may very well be immortal. The question of if they exist in our physical world or not has no…
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Spectrality and the Haunting in Ghost’s Cultural Gaze
Spectrality has always been one of the most interesting and controversial subjects in literature and in a high- and lowbrow…
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism Towards an Aggressive Ambivalence
Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself…
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Neo-Victorian Female Philanthropist in Literature and Freakishness
Neo-Victorian female philanthropist in fiction set to explore the patriarchal unease regarding the unsexing effect of feminism in the mid-Victorian…
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Monsters Born in the Full Spate of the Industrial Revolution
Monsters in the fear of bourgeois civilization are summed up in two names: Frankenstein and Dracula. The monster and the…
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Neo-Victorian Crime Fiction Deadly Husbands and Deviant Widows
Over the past decade, the detective widow has become a well-established character in the little-explored subgenre of neo–Victorian crime fiction…
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Sigmund Freud and the Bataillean Interpretation of Death
Death’s place in psychoanalysis is very problematic. Beginning with Sigmund Freud, death can be variously said to have been repressed,…
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The True Romantic Nature of the Greek ‘Satyricon’
A richer history, interpretative for future readings of the ‘Satyricon’ which requires flexibility about chronology, as well as Roman cultural…
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Notes Toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic
The gothic, understood narrowly as a narrative form given principal expression through the novel, had a life-span of approximately fifty-six…
