Literature
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The Animal Monster in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction
The animal characteristics of the monster in late Victorian gothic fiction make visible the biopolitical rationalisation of life in modern…
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Thomas Hardy’s Horror Gothic has its Place in Art
Thomas Hardy’s enduring fascination with things loosely defined as “Gothic” is among the most intriguing yet least appreciated aspects of…
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Victorian Folklore, Fear, Ghosts and Old Wives’ Tales
‘Wuthering Heights’ demonstrates the failure of progress to eliminate old wives’ tales: all of middle-class sophistication and violence fails to…
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Australian Gothic on the Borderline of Old and New
That is not to deny that much early writing was derivative, or that all of it was in the Australian…
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Death in Literature Numerous Evils of Humankind
We have no reliable information about death as an experience, and this emphasises death’s nature as a secret and mysterious…
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Defining Posthuman Gothic Monstrous Machinery
The posthuman Gothic distinguishes itself as a subgenre in which instances of horror arise from inevitable integrations of human subjects…
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The Batman Descent Into Darkness in Gothic Fiction
The figure of the comic book hero Batman has been repeatedly associated to Gothic imagery and themes in many of…
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Gothic as the Brainchild of the Eighteenth-Century
Once considered escapist, the Gothic genre has recently begun to be explored for its material concerns and engagement with real-world…
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When Folktales Meets Contemporary Comic Books
Folktales and myths of the past are to be found in comic books, where the folklorist must dwell if he…
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Death in a Literary Tombstone, and the Corpse’s Suffering
In fictive stories, death is often recognised as having narrative power, and literature can provide us with ways of approaching…
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The Supernatural Surrealism In Magical Novels
Magical realism and fantasy fiction share the quality of treating the magical and supernatural elements quite favourably.
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Sublime Terror and Uncanny Horror in Gothic Novels
Two parallel passages from the novels reveal each author’s stance on the Inquisition, uncanny horror and the sublime in Gothic…
