Literature
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Raygun Gothic Retrofuturism and Raypunk in Art Deco Context
Raygun Gothic, and a subgenre, Raypunk are instantly enthralled by the mixture of vintage imagery with sci-fi, and as such,…
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Die a Graphic Death: Revisiting the Death of Genre with Novels
Young adult literature is rife with exceptional examples of texts that defy genre; many graphic novels are excellent young adult…
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Reading the Ethics of the Soul and the Late-Victorian Gothic
As a literary phenomenon, the Victorian gothic manifests itself in fin-de-siècle literature both as a subversive supernatural force and as…
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Evolution of Gothicism in the British Novel and Visual Art
Gothicism in the early Gothic novels in the late 1700s and very early 1800s is no longer given a primary…
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“Monsters of the Imagination”: Gothic, and Dark Romance
Despite so many Gothic science fiction mutations, it is strange the genres should cross at all.
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The Fiction of Feminine Desires: The Mother Goddess
Twentieth-century keepers of the House of Fiction have always treated Gothic as a skeleton in the closet
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Monsters of the Imagination: Gothic, Science, and Fiction
Science, its theories, tools, and effects, becomes horrifying when incorporated in tales of terror, ghostly possession, and vampiric assault.
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The Victorian Gothic in English novels and stories, 1830–1880
The presence of Victoria as ruler thus explains, in part, the eclipse of the entrapped heroine: Victoria can become a…
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Agatha Christie, Max Ernst, and Neo-Victorianism in the 1930s
This article offers a sketch of attitudes to Victorianism between the First and Second World Wars, in the form of…
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Britain, France, and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror
Angela Wright describes how Gothic fiction provided a sort of diplomatic correspondence that maintained cross-cultural exchange between Britain and France…
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A Goth in White: Safety and Identity in the Shadows
What we need to understand with Dickinson’s poetry then is that she is a bridge between the Romantic’s notion of…
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The Maid, the Master, her Ghost and his Spectral Monster
Indeed, the heroines of Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood, 1996) and Mary Reilly (Valerie Martin, 1990) have much in common
