The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. This V…
"Foregrounding some of the most canonical and widely studied Gothic and Romantic texts, offering readings that are at once vibrant and new while still somehow familiar in the best possible way, Edelman makes it clear just how fundamental a concern with generation is to any under…
This book explores the narratives of girlhood in contemporary YA vampire fiction, bringing into the spotlight the genre's radical, ambivalent, and contradictory visions of young femininity. Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska considers less-explored popular vampire series for girls,…
Provides a one-stop resource which details and defines, in accessible language, those contexts essential for the study of the Gothic in all periods and media.
A comprehensive social history of six Glasgow housing schemes in the first half of the twentieth century.
This companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture.
"In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimensio…
"In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimensio…
This dissertation defines a new genre called Digital Gothic, a cousin to the classic literary genre of Gothic, which revises the classic Gothic narrative method and aesthetic while retaining the genre’s typical aims of transgression, anxiety, and fear. In this new genre, technol…
While using feminist, historical, and some Marxist focus, this thesis evaluates the trajectory of Gothic heroines beginning shortly after the French Revolution and ending in the late nineteenth century. This trajectory will be analyzed through a Gothic heroine’s access to power …
This study examined Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which foreshadows the Victorian period, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, which reflects on it. The two novels are both monster stories that share many similarities, including themes of creativity and morality. However…
This dissertation argues that over the course of the long nineteenth century, Gothic antagonists moved from supernatural but disembodied beings into more physically monstrous entities. The shift to monster follows traceable lines as the Gothic monster drifted from beings of terr…
Holy Stitches, Batman, or, Performative Villainy in Gothic/am is an interdisciplinary examination of gothic affect and deviant fashion in the narrative construction of villainy. It asks not just what a villain looks like, but what it means to look like a villain. A villain is a …
