Threshold Domesticity in the English Gothic Novel
Aug 1, 2024 · This dissertation straddles the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with two chapters on the eighteenth-century Gothic novel (focusing on Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and on the Gothic …
Specters of the Past: Redefining the Gothic Genre through Ralph …
Jul 1, 2021 · This thesis examines how African American writers reuse common gothic tropes and conventions to illustrate their everyday lived reality and the haunting, psychological turmoil of slavery.
The Historicist Requirement for the New Houses of Parliament: Gothic ...
Through a deep exploration of the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament in an elaborate Gothic style, it connects social and architectural history to a shifting sense of national identity.
The Gothic or the monstrous : African American and Caribbean …
Jan 1, 2008 · As these African American and Caribbean writers revisit the nightmare of slavery, and as they demonstrate how Gothic fabrications of race transform societies into monstrous killing …
Ghostly Encounters: Transnational Gothic and the Twenty-First Century ...
In this dissertation, I define the titular term ‘transnational gothic’ as a set of tropes in global fiction that attributes to border-crossing bodies supernaturality, fearfulness, and the grotesque.
The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Surveillance and Haunted ...
Apr 24, 2023 · From the very beginning of gothic literary history, preternatural forces have haunted architectural structures such as castles, abbeys, and manors, giving the impression that the buildings …
The Cultural Anxieties in Victorian Women's Ghost Stories, 1847-1920
May 1, 2018 · These women’s ghost stories are located in their cultural moment through an interdisciplinary framework that combines historicism, feminist criticism, and Gothic studies.
Moral Implications of Madness: Female Sexuality and Violence in Sir ...
Apr 28, 2023 · Either in a Gothic or a pastoral manner, both authors draw on the pagan to illustrate the rural landscape and transform it into an active force that shapes the characters’ identities and …
The novel as imaginative order
But as poetry flourished through lyric intensity, the novel evolved into the apparently vitiated Gothic romance. Although the Gothic mode has recently received much attention, the place of the …
Edith Wharton in the house of Hawthorne: the triumph of a literary …
In chapters one and two, I contrast the thwarted feminist possibilities of certain gothic elements in Hawthorne's fiction with Wharton's forthrightly feminist marshalling of their power.