Literature

Carmilla’s same-sex attraction to Laura defies Victorian norms, casting the female vampire as a symbol of rebellion. Her ambiguous sexuality…

Victorian society’s fascination with the macabre went beyond mere morbid curiosity; it was a profound engagement with life’s uncertainties, a…

In Gothic literature, death is not an end but a gateway to perpetual dread, where souls face horrors that mirror…

The Marquis de Sade’s works redefined Gothic literature by merging cruelty, eroticism, and moral ambiguity. His narratives intertwine domination, submission,…

Victorian-era anatomical museums and Gothic literature merged education and spectacle, using dissection and Gothic aesthetics to provoke fear and curiosity…

Explore the roots of monstrosity in Gothic literature, from Enlightenment rationalism to Romanticism’s sublime, where the monstrous reflects societal anxieties—xenophobia,…

As Gothic horror evolved from external threats to internal fears and psychological disintegration, its adaptability across media has ensured its…

There are many ways of writing ethnographies, taking the shape of realistic stories, confessions, dramatic ethnography, and the perspective we…

This article debates the rife knowability of “true” horror, especially that which is stemmed from the “beyond”, “vast” or “sublime”…

This article examines the reception history of women-authored Gothic texts from the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century, arguing that the…