Literature

Gothicism in the early Gothic novels in the late 1700s and very early 1800s is no longer given a primary…

Despite so many Gothic science fiction mutations, it is strange the genres should cross at all.

Science, its theories, tools, and effects, becomes horrifying when incorporated in tales of terror, ghostly possession, and vampiric assault.

The presence of Victoria as ruler thus explains, in part, the eclipse of the entrapped heroine: Victoria can become a…

This article offers a sketch of attitudes to Victorianism between the First and Second World Wars, in the form of…

Angela Wright describes how Gothic fiction provided a sort of diplomatic correspondence that maintained cross-cultural exchange between Britain and France…

What we need to understand with Dickinson’s poetry then is that she is a bridge between the Romantic’s notion of…

Indeed, the heroines of Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood, 1996) and Mary Reilly (Valerie Martin, 1990) have much in common

Through a variety of different texts, writers felt something for the Famine Irish, but their reactions spread across a spectrum…

Hunger could not be easily accommodated in the antebellum period because many Americans preferred to think of themselves as self-sufficient…

This article examines how the Irish Famine (1845-1852) and its concomitant hunger were viewed by a diverse selection of American…