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Gothic Sounds and the Foreshadowing of Victorian Soundscapes
Published 2021-11-01“…Traditionally ending in 1820 with the publication of Melmoth the Wanderer, the main period of gothic fiction precedes the Victorian Era while foreshadowing its concerns, notably through the questioning of sounds’ impact on people’s movements and mental health. …”
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Guilt, Greed and Remorse: Manifestations of the Anglo-Irish Other in J. S. Le Fanu’s “Madame Crowl’s Ghost” and “Green Tea”
Published 2020-12-01“…Monsters and the idea of monstrosity are central tenets of Gothic fiction. Such figures as vampires and werewolves have been extensively used to represent the menacing Other in an overtly physical way, identifying the colonial Other as the main threat to civilised British society. …”
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Neither Animal nor Human: An Ecogothic reading of the Monstrous Hybrid in Dracula, The Beetle and The Snake Lady
Published 2020-12-01“…Concretely, this project proposes an ecocritical reading of fin de siècle gothic fiction, as it provides insight on the ideological foundation of humanity’s anthropocentric relation towards the environment. …”
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Review of Joyce Carol Oates's Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
Published 2018-07-01“…A review of Joyce Carol Oates's short story collection Night-Gaunts focusing on the influence of H.P. Lovecraft and gothic fiction.…”
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The strange case of 19th century vitalism
Published 2016-02-01“…The purpose of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, it will attempt to demonstrate the influence that Medicine had on the arguments advanced by a central philosopher during the 1800s, Arthur Schopenhauer, and, on the other hand, it will also trace such influence within Gothic fiction. The result will be a sober witness to the interdisciplinary nature of Philosophy, Medicine, and Literature.…”
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Romance forms in A. S. Byatt's Possession
Published 1995-11-01“…Although mainly working with archetypes, Byatt also deploys here elements taken from romance subgenres such as detective stories and gothic fiction. Through this generic encoding of her work, Byatt raises questions as to the reception of these archetypes, the function of the author and the very process of reading.…”
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Nostalgic Aliens and Troublesome Citizens – on Vampire Stories Once Again
Published 2019-09-01“…Therefore the article is an attempt to show how texts that can be classified as fantasy or Gothic fiction engage in a modern reality around us. …”
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Decolonising the Eerie: Satyajit’s Bhooter Raja (the King of Ghosts) in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969)
Published 2017-01-01“…He deliberately deviates from the colonial tradition of Gothic fiction and customised Upendrakishore’s tale as a postcolonial narrative. …”
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Pagan Revenants in Arthur Machen’s Supernatural Tales of the Nineties
Published 2014-09-01“…In his Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (1999), Robert Mighall presents ‘anachronistic conflict’ as the defining feature of the mode. …”
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How the gothic reared its head in Dutch literature
Published 2012-11-01“…It was not until the twentieth century, and especially the 1980s, that Dutch Gothic fiction began to flourish. This article gives an overview of the history of the Gothic in Dutch literature, and discusses the explanations given for the absence of a Dutch Gothic tradition. …”
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La influencia de la literatura gótica en Francia: traducciones francesas y relatos de Ducray-Duminil y Arlincourt
Published 2015-04-01“…This paper deals with the influence and diffusion of the «Gothic Fiction» or «Gothic Novel» in France through French translations which appeared almost at the same time as their original English texts; for instance, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) was translated only three years after its publication. …”
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Pagan Revenants in Arthur Machen’s Supernatural Tales of the Nineties
Published 2014-09-01“…In his Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (1999), Robert Mighall presents ‘anachronistic conflict’ as the defining feature of the mode. …”
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Gothicizing Domesticity – The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe
Published 2018-12-01“…It is critical common knowledge that domestic narratives and the structure of traditional domesticity are subverted in Gothic fiction (Smith 2013). The household and its apparent security are threatened from within by unknown supernatural forces. …”
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Contagions
Published 2022-12-01“… A hundred years separate two of the most successful masterpieces of English Gothic Fiction: The Monk (1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis and Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. …”
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La Montagne et la Manière Noire
Published 2008-05-01“…The object of this paper is to liken a number of set subjects typical of Gothic fiction to Turner’s use of the mezzotint technique in his Liber Studiorum. …”
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The Myth of Creation in Reverse or the Disavowal of Genius in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Published 2016-10-01“…In my paper, I intend to link several psychoanalytical concepts – such as the uncanny or the theme of the double – to the development of Gothic fiction as a subgenre of Romanticism, while attempting a psychoanalytical re-reading of Victor Frankenstein’s actions and their terrible results.…”
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Up the river, into the dark: textual play and dystopian gloom in Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro
Published 2023-08-01“…But while the novel makes frequent references to the violent methods of exploitation that characterized American colonization, it mostly relies on allusions to different literary traditions—including gothic fiction, the adventure novel, and science fiction—in its depiction of colonialism. …”
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“Dressed up in the body of an old woman”: Gothic Conventions in Ingemann, Andersen, Blixen and Høeg
Published 2009-12-01“… ABSTRACT: Despite growing in prominence in the popular and critical mind in recent years, Gothic fiction has yet to be examined within the Danish literary canon. …”
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Sequestered spaces and defective doors in tales by Collins and Riddell
Published 2012-11-01“…However, instead of focusing on psychoanalyticor feminist notions commonly attached to this element, thisarticle considers architectural manuals of the day in order to“read” spatial and cultural implications of the door in Victorianhouseholds, arguing that an excessive concern for privacy andconcealment in life translates easily into Gothic fiction, in theform of spatial anxiety and infiltration. …”
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‘We’re Going to Make You into a Proper Woman’: Postfeminist Gender Performativity and the Supernatural in <i>Penny Dreadful</i> (2014-2016)
Published 2021-05-01“…Neo-Victorian Gothic fiction exploits the supernatural to achieve social and sexual emancipation for women, shaping the narrative into what Esther Saxey defines as the ‘liberation plot’ (2010). …”
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