Books
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Agatha Christie, Max Ernst, and Neo-Victorianism in the 1930s
This article offers a sketch of attitudes to Victorianism between the First and Second World Wars, in the form of…
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Britain, France, and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror
Angela Wright describes how Gothic fiction provided a sort of diplomatic correspondence that maintained cross-cultural exchange between Britain and France…
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A Goth in White: Safety and Identity in the Shadows
What we need to understand with Dickinson’s poetry then is that she is a bridge between the Romantic’s notion of…
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The Maid, the Master, her Ghost and his Spectral Monster
Indeed, the heroines of Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood, 1996) and Mary Reilly (Valerie Martin, 1990) have much in common
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Entitled to Hunger: Frederick Douglass and the Famine Irish
Through a variety of different texts, writers felt something for the Famine Irish, but their reactions spread across a spectrum…
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Irish-American Gothic: Fitz-James O’Brien’s ‘Great Hunger’
Hunger could not be easily accommodated in the antebellum period because many Americans preferred to think of themselves as self-sufficient…
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Herman Melville’s Transatlantic Epistemology of Hunger
This article examines how the Irish Famine (1845-1852) and its concomitant hunger were viewed by a diverse selection of American…
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‘The Rise of the Gothic Novel’ and the Nature of Gothic
In ‘The Rise of the Gothic Novel’, Maggie Kilgour argues that the ghost of the gothic and its impetus as…
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Ladies, Lunatics and Fallen Women in Neo-Victorian Fiction
We, the contemporary beholders of this picture, too, gaze backwards in history, hoping, perhaps, to achieve a better view of…
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Theorising the Gothic for the Twenty-First-Century
A new theory of the Gothic for the twenty-first century is as follows: Gothic is the name for the speaking…
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Gothic-Grotesque of ‘Haunted’: Joyce Carol Oates’s Abjections
In literature, as in the visual arts, images of the body have come to assimilate many of the collective changes…
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Elizabethan Necromanticism and the Sexual, Spiritual Lore
The magic operations presented here are curiosities for a variety of reasons, many of which coalesce around a single question:…
