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Weird or What? The Nautical and the Hauntological
We can certainly agree that Cthulhu is not a ghost; on the contrary, he has an all too present materiality,…
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Decay in Gothic Settings, Characters and Narrative
During this discourse, we have found that the Gothic from its humble origins as an idea of one man has…
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Shakespeare, and the Secularization of Gothic Mediations
The gothic secularised the uncanny by making traditional religious beliefs and values both familiar and strange, both immanent and transcendent,…
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Victorian Gothic, Murderous Plants into Vegetable Carnivory
Darwin’s interest in carnivorous plants was in keeping with the Victorian fascination with Gothic horrors, and his experiments on them…
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The Gothic Fiction Englishwoman’s Character in the 1790s
Gothic fiction of the 1790s is incredibly dense with rhetorical and thematic echoes of the poor debates, and the reverse…
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Towards a Definition of the Great Early Scottish Gothic
Scottish literature has had a lengthy and vigorous relationship with the Gothic mode, and conventions were initiated by the publication…
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The Horror Classic Phenomena in Latvian Literature
This article gives an insight into the horror fiction genre in Latvian literature, from folklore to modern literary works
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Supernaturalism in Traditional New Zealand Gothic Fiction
Like any genre or mode, the Gothic is malleable, changing according to time and place
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Authorship and the Uncanny: The Horror House of Fiction
Henry James’s ‘The Private Life’ disturbingly indicates that authorship demands that the writer must suffer a separation into two distinct…
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Victorian Gothic Mania in the Eighteenth-Century
The birth of Gothic as a genre of fiction, the “Gothic novel”, and all its numerous successors came about as…
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Sexuality, Gender, and Space in the Neo-Victorian Novels
Sarah Waters takes sensation one step further by removing patriarchal control altogether, providing a space for lesbians to write a…
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Art-Horror and Natural Horror: What’s the Difference?
In his dissection of the horror genre of art, Noël Carroll makes a distinction between art-horror, and natural horror.
