Books
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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…
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The Authentic Fear of Monsters in Victorian Gothicism
Monsters shift and develop based on a society’s needs and fears, as well as the individuals who either write them…
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Graphic Novels Represent a Move from the Traditional
Many adults enjoy graphic novels because the genre differs from the books that educators traditionally have encouraged adolescents to read.
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Madness, Mimicry and Scottish Gothic Borderline
The “borderline” experience of psychotic discourse is the representation of madness, split personality and sociopathic behaviour in Scottish Gothic fiction.
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‘Dark Legacy’: Gothic Ruptures in Southern Literature
An attempt to answer why the Gothic has been such a durable — and ambiguous — feature in critical discussions…
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The Breathtaking Horror Fiction in Latvian Literature
Although the horror fiction genre is represented by only a few works in Latvian literature, these works manifest several national…
