Readings
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Forbidden Incantations: Spells and Charms in Early European Witchcraft
Witches, cast as moral transgressors, became scapegoats for societal anxieties. Their forbidden spells, chanted in esoteric tongues, summoned supernatural forces…
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Beneath the Veneer: Neo-Victorian Deviance and the Macabre Logic of Perversion
Neo-Victorian literature unveils a haunting portrayal of the Victorian era, peeling back its polished veneer to reveal a world rife…
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Mary Watson of Academized Unveils Expert Strategies for Crafting Compelling Essays on Gothic Literature
Watson advises students to immerse themselves in Gothic literature by reading widely across different eras and authors. Starting with classics…
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Damsels and Demons: Transgressive Females from Clarissa to Carmilla
Biologically impossible, morally offensive and aesthetically dichotomous, vampires epitomise transgression, they are life and death; repulsion and magnetic attraction in…
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Horror from the Soul: Gothic Style in Allan Poe’s Horror Fictions
Edgar Allan Poe’s inheritance of gothic fiction and American literature tradition combined with his living experience forms the background of…
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Gothic Infections: Storytelling as Therapy in Dark Narratives
This article proposes a reading of Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ (1818) as a case study for discussing infectious literature, storytelling…
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‘Vampirella’ Radio Plays as a ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Metaphor
‘Vampirella’ links Gothic horror and the fairy-tale through the Countess, a self-loathing vampire who imagines that she is ‘Sleeping Beauty’
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Hawthorne’s Romantic Chronotope of the Gothic Home
The poetics of the ‘House of the Seven Gables’ are explicitly Gothic and plainly recall the chronotopes of earlier Gothic…
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Introduction to the Supernatural Victorian Gothic Literature
This article will examine the relationship between the Women’s Movement of the late nineteenth-century and the concurrent revival of the…
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Development of the Gothic Heroine from Innocence to Experience
Spatial confinement, though mostly affecting women in the gothic novel, cannot be restricted to female confinement only, since the trope…
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Heroines Relationships in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Fiction
The present study aims at focusing on the unique figure of the gothic heroine: to what extent she conforms to…
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Tales of Terror from the House of Blackwood
Unlike the subtler phantasmagoria of eighteenth-century gothic fiction, these tales thrived on sensational physical and psychological violence, often in contemporary…
