Books
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The Birth of a Nation’s Gothicism to Transcendentalism
It is not surprising that the Gothic novel was the literary genre that emerged as the only one likely to…
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Race and Gender in Early Horror and Science Fiction
The great science-fiction writer Samuel Ray Delany Jr. has asserted that the best science fiction offers “significant distortions of the…
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Recurring Cultural Work of the Gothic and Zombie Fiction
The maniacal faces of the reanimated corpses laughing and celebrating in the face of mortality draw clear parallels between anxieties…
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Vernon Lee: Weird Psychological Lovecraftian Aesthetics
Here I situate the supernatural fiction and essays of Vernon Lee in relation to the work of the weird horror…
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The Puritan Beginnings of North American Gothic Horror
Gothic horror arrived in North America in the latter half of the eighteenth-century as one of many imports, both literary…
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The Spectral Other and the Erotic Uncanny Melancholy
Standing always under the sign of longing is the dangerous lover — the one whose eroticism lies in his dark…
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The Gothic Villain Lover and the Early Seduction Narrative
The gesture of desire, of yearning, is one of surrender; it grasps nothingness greedily.
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The Universe as the Creatures of Horror Hunting Territory
In his ghost stories, Montague Rhodes James disclosed the most irrational and fearful aspects of archaic demonology still haunting the…
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‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Pattern in Gothic Fiction
There is currently no literature on the topic of formulaic language in Gothic prose fiction.
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The Strokes of Brush and Blade of Dorian Gray Naturalism
The task of pinning down Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde’s personal view of visual art is a rather tricky one.
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Transformation of the Grotesque into the Gothic Novels
When 1778 dawned, twenty-five-year-old Frances Burney was not the egotist this pronouncement in her diary might suggest.
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Cannibalised Girlhood in Richard Miller Flanagan’s ‘Wanting’
Richard Miller Flanagan’s ‘Wanting’ (2008) centres on Victorian Tasmania, retelling the story of the Aboriginal girl Mathinna and her adoption.
