Opinions
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Introduction to Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art
Esoteric spirituality here is reflected only by Theosophy, but encompasses a far broader set of belief practices that influenced modernist…
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Beyond the Witchcraft Trials in the Age of Enlightenment
The so-called Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth-century has often been portrayed as a period in which much of Europe…
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Dutch Gothic Literary Culture as an Epiphenomenon of Change
In order to explain the marginality of the Gothic novel within eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch literature, we would like to…
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Spiritualism Insights and Victorian Psychology in Gothic Literature
Spiritualism was laden with supernatural experiences and insanity around every corner, the Gothic created a distinct genre of eeriness and…
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The Gothic Scholars, Studies and Subcultures
Goth youth subcultures and Gothic Studies are complex manifestations of the same postmodern resistance against the excessive rationalism of the…
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Myths of Modern Primitives and Tribal Intersections
An investigation into the legitimacy and limits of the term “Modern Primitives” in its vernacular sense as a movement, and…
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Lifestyle Culture’s Mantra of an Alternative Universe
Lifestyle culture is the capacity to fabricate meaning from a circuit of signs in popular and consumer culture by crafting…
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Sympathy for the Devil and ‘The Invention of Satanism’
Within the realms of occultism and alternative religiosity, modern religious Satanism punches well above its weight
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The Other Side of Black Metal and Artistic Aesthetics
Contemporary Black Metal art is always a matter of denotation, and with the arrival of the media, it critically consumes…
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The Emergence of Thanatology in Educational Practice
Thanatology is a recent field that contemplates death studies and employs an interdisciplinary approach to practice.
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The Contemporary History of British Women’s Horror
In focussing specifically on British women’s horror, it is useful to look at its origins and development up to the…
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Contemporary British Women Horror Fiction Writers
British women’s horror fiction is sometimes quite conventional, its main feature being incarcerations, sexualised cruelties and dangerous spaces.
