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 one
Readings
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 his horror fictions
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 as therapy and the interconnectedness of Gothic methodologies and medical humanities
‘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’
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 works
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 Gothic novel by male authors as a cautionary retort to social change
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 can also be found in Walpole
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 eighteenth-century conceptions of femininity compared to seminal female representations of the century
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 settings
The Aspects of Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian Literature
In nineteenth‐century Scandinavian literature, hair‐raising accounts of terrifying supernatural events are sometimes explained, but sometimes not
On the Dialectics of Vampirism, Capital, and Time
In articulating a set of arguments about the relationships between vampirism, capital, and time, we will attempt to reclaim the value of the way that Marx draws on this cultural reference
Lovecraftian Monstrosity, Cosmic Horror and the Gothic
All ideas are fundamental in understanding Lovecraft’s approach to writing fiction, and how his fiction subverted popular narrative presentation through a thematic exploration of monstrosity and cosmic horror
Monstrous Adaptations in Contemporary Gothic Culture
It has been nearly two hundred years since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel ‘Frankenstein’, and since the birth of her infamous monster
Weird Tales and Horror in the Sherlockian Canon
We are all familiar with these words from ‘The Devil’s Foot,’ words that as easily could have been written by H. P. Lovecraft as by John H. Watson
Gothic and the Oriental Renaissance Transgressive Boundaries
The Gothic is frequently identified with two obsessions: a concern with otherness and alterity, and a compulsion to explore socially aberrant desires and transgress boundaries
