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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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…
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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
