Literature
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Sexuality, Gender, and Space in the Neo-Victorian Novels
Sarah Waters takes sensation one step further by removing patriarchal control altogether, providing a space for lesbians to write a…
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Recognition and Hybridity of Art or Comics as Literature?
Not all comics are art. What about the comics that are art? What sort of art are they? In particular,…
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Art-Horror and Natural Horror: What’s the Difference?
In his dissection of the horror genre of art, Noël Carroll makes a distinction between art-horror, and natural horror.
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The Birth of a Nation’s Gothicism to Transcendentalism
It is not surprising that the Gothic novel was the literary genre that emerged as the only one likely to…
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Race and Gender in Early Horror and Science Fiction
The great science-fiction writer Samuel Ray Delany Jr. has asserted that the best science fiction offers “significant distortions of the…
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Recurring Cultural Work of the Gothic and Zombie Fiction
The maniacal faces of the reanimated corpses laughing and celebrating in the face of mortality draw clear parallels between anxieties…
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Vernon Lee: Weird Psychological Lovecraftian Aesthetics
Here I situate the supernatural fiction and essays of Vernon Lee in relation to the work of the weird horror…
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The Puritan Beginnings of North American Gothic Horror
Gothic horror arrived in North America in the latter half of the eighteenth-century as one of many imports, both literary…
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The Spectral Other and the Erotic Uncanny Melancholy
Standing always under the sign of longing is the dangerous lover — the one whose eroticism lies in his dark…
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The Gothic Villain Lover and the Early Seduction Narrative
The gesture of desire, of yearning, is one of surrender; it grasps nothingness greedily.
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The Universe as the Creatures of Horror Hunting Territory
In his ghost stories, Montague Rhodes James disclosed the most irrational and fearful aspects of archaic demonology still haunting the…
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‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Pattern in Gothic Fiction
There is currently no literature on the topic of formulaic language in Gothic prose fiction.
