Books
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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:…
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The Human Spiritual Guide in the Apophthegmata Patrum
The theme of the guide from the dead was not so prevalent in the Kabbalah as it was among the…
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Fifteenth-Century Supernatural Forces, Demonic or Divine?
The fifteenth century, as throughout the Middle Ages, was concerned above all with correct errors and providing clarity, for, in…
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Spells, and Charms in Early European Witchcraft Literature
In 1917, in a lecture in Munich on ‘Science as a Vocation,’ Max Weber first articulated his notion of “the…
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The Obscure Subject of Desire of Lucretia Borgia
In ‘The Obscure Subject of Desire: Lucretia Borgia in Nineteenth-Century Literature’ Martina Mittag discusses literary representations of Lucretia Borgia in…
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Horror Literature Origins where Mankind Struggles to Exist
What horror literature has done chiefly was create an alternative world of gods and monsters beyond the realm of man,…
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Thickening our Victorian Sense of Female Sexual Fallenness
As a decidedly heterogeneous genre, Victorian pornography offers a wide range of sexual narratives, including those that directly challenge both…
