Literature
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Marquis de Sade: The Dark Aesthetics of Cruelty and Gothic Eroticism
The Marquis de Sade’s works redefined Gothic literature by merging cruelty, eroticism, and moral ambiguity. His narratives intertwine domination, submission,…
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Body Horrors and the Grotesque: Dissecting the Victorian Gothic Anatomical Displays
Victorian-era anatomical museums and Gothic literature merged education and spectacle, using dissection and Gothic aesthetics to provoke fear and curiosity…
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Specters of Fear: Monstrosity and the Marginalized Otherness in Gothic Literature
Explore the roots of monstrosity in Gothic literature, from Enlightenment rationalism to Romanticism’s sublime, where the monstrous reflects societal anxieties—xenophobia,…
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Origins of Dread: Gothic Horror in Twentieth-Century Literature
As Gothic horror evolved from external threats to internal fears and psychological disintegration, its adaptability across media has ensured its…
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Gothic Horror: A Haunting Journey Through Comics and Graphic Novels
Gothic horror has an enduring history in comic books and graphic novels that is worth exploring, from the early days…
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Lovecraftian Twenty-First-Century Popular Transformation in the Weird Times
In 1974 Angela Carter declared, “we live in gothic times.” It is perhaps more apposite these days to suggest that…
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The Clarity of Darkness: Experiencing the Gothic Anthropological Role
There are many ways of writing ethnographies, taking the shape of realistic stories, confessions, dramatic ethnography, and the perspective we…
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The True-Weird and the Dreadful American Horror Hostility
This article debates the rife knowability of “true” horror, especially that which is stemmed from the “beyond”, “vast” or “sublime”…
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The Female Gothic: From the Second-Wave to Post-Feminism
This article examines the reception history of women-authored Gothic texts from the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century, arguing that the…
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The Sinister Fascination and the Challenges of the Gothic Black Veil
This article focuses on a unique aspect of the complicated relationship between the literary and the visual Gothic, the story…
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Gender, Genre and Dracula: Joan Copjec and “Vampire Fiction”
Perhaps the most celebrated recent intervention into the field of history, gender, and the Gothic is Joan Copjec’s ‘Read My…
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Lesbianism and the Vampire in “Christabel”and Carmilla
Le Fanu colors Laura’s sexual exploration with Gothic convention and vampirism, and in so doing, reinforces the close relationship that…
