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- 1From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe North is both our glory and our problem. --Martin Wainwright From Premier League football and police politics, to Noh drama and industrial disputes, the novels of David Peace offer "occult" accounts of...
- 2From:West Virginia University Philological Papers (Vol. 49) Peer-Reviewed"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has a man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and a woman's heart." Dr. Van Helsing Brain Stoker's Dracula "Really excellent," Starling said. "I've...
- 3From:English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Vol. 54, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"Ah, my nineteenth-century friend, your father stole me from the land of my birth, and from the resting place the gods decreed for me; but beware, for retribution is pursuing you, and is even now close upon your...
- 4From:Studies in the Humanities (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI 'Tis now the moment still and dread, When Sorcerers use their baleful power; When Graves give up their buried dead To profit by the sanctioned hour. Lewis, "Midnight Hymn," The Monk (1794) From the 1780s and...
- 5From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis essay argues that Gothic literature and historical romances changed the course of American architecture by influencing architect Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892). Davis's client Robert Gilmor III shared his love...
- 6From:JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCritics such as Ian Conrich and Jennifer Lawn, among others, have identified various versions of the Gothic in New Zealand, locating dystopian representations of 'what lies beneath' in small town, urban, rural and...
- 7From:Gothic Studies (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines Irish bogland as Gothic landscapes in Bram Stoker's The Snake's Pass (1890). Conjoining the constituent elements of the Irish bog with the EcoGothic as a literary and cultural mode, the 'Bog...
- 8From:Gothic Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRecent writings on Venice as a set of signs have emphasised long-standing paradoxes in its literary representation. These are both synchronic and historical. The city is the site of several types of inversion of value...
- 9From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFirst published in 1839 and influenced by such Gothic precursors as Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), "The Fall of the House of Usher" has proven to be one...
- 10From:Cultural Critique (Issue 66) Peer-ReviewedIn this essay I describe two popular modes of gothic masculinity as a prelude to discussing recent theories of gender. Over the past twenty years or so, gothic narratives of masculinity have had a noticeable impact on...
- 11From:Gothic Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLong after publishing The Castle of Otranto, Walpole would confess to Sir William Hamilton that he had chosen the name 'Otranto' by looking at a map of Naples. The word was 'well-sounding', suitable for his Gothic...
- 12From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Gothic has long been considered a mode particularly apt to describe conditions at the limits of human comprehension. In a way parallel to the process of creating myths and legends, the Gothic features strong...
- 13From:Critical Survey (Vol. 31, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article proposes that Q1 Hamlet is best understood as an early Gothic tragedy. It connects Catherine Belsey's work on Shakespeare's indebtedness to 'old wives' tales' and 'winter's tales' about ghosts...
- 14From:English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"POLYNESIAN STORIES are generally pretty grim," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. (1) He devoted a chapter of his travel book In the South Seas to an analysis of the "graveyard stories" he encountered throughout the...
- 15From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGothic fiction, at least as it developed in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, typically stages an encounter with difference. In this encounter an established set of social relations is...
- 16From:Critical Survey (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In Penny Dreadful, John Logan creates a 'confluent' and urban diegetic world which is characterized by the merging of dualities. While seamlessly bringing together characters from such classical works of...
- 17From:Criticism (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction CHARLES SHIRO INOUYE'S introduction to his English translations of Izumi Kyoka's Japanese Gothic Tales (1996) attempts for the first time in English to contextualize the idea of Japanese Gothic fiction....
- 18From:Nebula (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe traditional Gothic was fascinated by empty moors, steeples and labyrinths, all peopled by dangerous creatures. Twentieth century versions of the Gothic have relocated many of these atmospheric conditions of...
- 19From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA later work, written at the same time as some of his best-known tales of horror and ratiocination--such as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Gold-Bug," "The Black Cat," "The Premature Burial," and "The Purloined Letter"--"A...
- 20From:Gothic Studies (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the framework of contemporary ecocritical theories, this comparative analysis of works by Paolo Mantegazza, Ouida, and Vernon Lee focuses on the conflictual relationship of proximity and differentiation at stake in...