Books
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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.
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The Paradox of Horror: The Dark Side of Gothic Aesthetics
Is Gothic an expression of our contemporary fears, or does it create our own nightmares? Robert Albert Bloch said “horror…
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Phantasmagorias of Childhood in the British Horror Stories
The short story in the twentieth century seems to illustrate a movement which displaces the abject or the object of…
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Rewriting Fiction: A Neo-Victorian Contemporary Approach
The present article focuses on some of the major neo-Victorian rewritings and the ways in which they (re)-explore, (re)-construct or…
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‘Paradise Lost’ and the Children of Sin in the Garden of Eden
The emphasis on the unnaturalness of the children of sin connects to the unnatural state of mankind after the original…
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Black Women’s Identity in Fighting the Supernatural
Historically, the branding of slaves signified ownership by another, a physical marker of the lack of agency the black woman…
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The Zoophagous Madness and Degeneracy in ‘Dracula’
As a zoophagous maniac, R. M. Renfield’s every utterance and movement is a clue to happenings in the larger world…
