This dissertation explores the literary relationship between Ann Radcliffe’s late eighteenth-century heroine-centered novels and Jane Austen’s early nineteenth-century Gothic parodies, Northanger Abbey and Emma. Within this framework, it argues that, contrary to scholarly consen…
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This dissertation examines the genre of the author-published familiar letter to consider the ways in which people come to understand themselves as part of a public, and as actors who might affect the shape of that public. Chapter 1, on Alexander Pope’s Mr. Pope’s Literary Corres…
The Palgrave handbook of contemporary Gothic
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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is the most comprehensive compendium of analytic essays on the modern Gothic now available, covering the vast and highly significant period from 1918 to 2019. The Gothic sensibility, over 200 years old, embraces its dark past whilst a…
The Palgrave handbook of contemporary Gothic
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Type: Book
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is the most comprehensive compendium of analytic essays on the modern Gothic now available, covering the vast and highly significant period from 1918 to 2019. The Gothic sensibility, over 200 years old, embraces its dark past whilst a…
I aim to make an important contribution to academic discussion of the modes of women's presence in the literatures of modernity, by approaching documentary texts and fictions describing impoverished women, from the perspective of consumption and phantasmagoric cultures. Cultural…
Orphans of British Fiction, 1880-1911 Abstract William David Floyd Orphans of British Fiction, 1880-1911 focuses on the depiction of orphans in genre fiction of the Victorian fin-de-siecle. The overwhelming majority of criticism focusing on orphans centers particularly on the fo…
In recent years, Gothic literary studies have increasingly acknowledged the role played by Shakespeare in authorial acts of appropriation. Such acknowledgement is most prominently stated in Gothic Shakespeares (eds. Drakakis and Townshend, 2008) and Shakespearean Gothic (eds. De…
At the beginnings of the Gothic, in the eighteenth century, there was an anxiety or taboo surrounding consumption and appetite for the Gothic text itself and for the excessive and sensational themes that the Gothic discussed. The female body, becoming a commodity in society, was…
The titular “House” from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 work The House of the Seven Gables is not just one house: it is an old edifice where the characters live, an intertwined family “house” of the Pyncheons and Maules, the plants and animals who live there alongside the humans, th…
This thesis investigates the distinction between terror and horror that Robert Hume first established in his 1969 article on categories of the gothic novel, a distinction that I redefine as a scholar working after the #Metoo movement and broader cultural recognition of the terro…
The works of Latin ecclesiastical architecture of the 13th and 14th centuries at the periphery of Gothic geography in the eastern Mediterranean have been thought to be provincial. The party line is that the Gothic system developed in France, and shortly thereafter appeared in En…
Intimate Antagonists: British Images of the Balkans, 1853-1914, explores the impact of the Eastern Question on the formation of British stereotypes about the Balkans, seeking to explain how the Balkans came to be seen as a disgrace to Europe. It advances the previous studies on …
This dissertation explores the link between a uniquely American gothic literary tradition and the establishment of American subjectivity and nationhood. Filled with virginal maidens fleeing lascivious patriarchs through haunted castles, dungeons, and subterranean passages, the B…
The long nineteenth century was characterized by advances in medical, biological and technological knowledge that often complicated definitions of human life and blurred the lines between life and death. These changes impacted both beliefs and practices surrounding the human bod…
The lengthy Victorian period, extending from 1832 until 1901, was a time of cultural turmoil. New scientific discoveries were being made daily, and Christianity was forced to deal with issues of Darwinism, occultism, and growing disbelief in God. By the start of the fin de siècl…
Italia lunare: Gli anni Sessanta e l'occulto
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L'Italia degli anni Sessanta non è solo il paese del miracolo economico e dei conflitti sociali: è anche un paese che scopre il proprio volto perturbante e lunare, attraverso un vero boom dell'occulto che investe ogni settore dell'industria culturale. Questo libro riporta alla l…
Italia lunare: gli anni sessanta e l'occulto
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Type: Book