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Female Virtue In Gothic Literature 1780-1810
… presentations of the concept of female virtue in Gothic literature between 1780 and 1810 particularly by drawing on literary texts supplemented by contemporary non-literary sources in order to set out the background and definitions of my work. The word ‘virtue’ has come to mean ‘goodness’ or …
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Contemporary gothic literature: The need for fear
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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature
… their biographies. The resulting analysis traces gothic effects through other, more familiar texts and figures in order to bring about re-readings that disrupt certain monolithic understandings of literary and sexual identity over time. With a focus on gender transitivity and sexual dissidence, …
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Death Becomes Us: The Consumptive Body in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature
… of nineteenth-century tuberculosis epidemics on gothic literature published between 1842 and 1872. In this period of time, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the United States and in Europe, killing an estimated one in seven people. Using theoretical lenses of psychoanalysis and …
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A Study of the Supernatural in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Gothic Literature
The field of Gothic studies is an ever-evolving one, and while existing critical studies have approached the Gothic through various thematic, cultural, and political concerns, little attention has been paid to the Gothic in Young Adult literature (YA), and specifically to the portrayal of the …
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VILE HUMOR: GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS THROUGH DARK COMEDY IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE
The American South is a rich source of literature that combines the humorous and the horrific in its attempts to explain and expose the region's deep-seated social turmoil. One of the most prolific genres to come out of the South is southern gothic literature that, though not always humorous is …
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The beautiful Gothic: an investigation into the use and development of the beautiful and death in Gothic literature
… the ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful in Gothic literature. Using ideas proposed by Edmund Burke, I will argue that authors of the Gothic genre developed these ideas into a maturing relationship between the Sublime and the Beautiful, and then demonstrate how this relationship has close …
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Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed: The Thematic Importance Of Doubling In Nineteenth And Early Twentieth-Century American Gothic Literature
<p>Without question, Gothic literature provides an impressively suitable venue for the expression of societal anxieties and frustrations, especially those concerning power, patriarchy, and the socially sanctioned roles of women (i.e. to be obediently passive wives and nurturing mothers) and men …
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Gothic Representations: History, Literature, and Film
<p>Gothic storytelling has come a long way since the publication of Horace Walpole's <em>The Castle of Otranto</em> in 1764. This short novel created the standard motifs and tropes that will forever be associated with the genre-the destitute castle, the foreboding atmosphere, supernatural or …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
This thesis analyses the persistence of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs in the literature of Soviet Russia between 1920 and 1940. Nineteenth-century Russian literature was characterized by the almost universal assimilation of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs, adapted from the fiction of …
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"'The Dead Travel Fast'": The Gothic Politics of Irish Literature
Although the Gothic was created by English authors it finds significant use in Irish literature. There has been debate over how this genre should be defined, but I would suggest that instead of trying to force the Gothic into the categories of mode/tradition or Catholic/Protestant, it should be …
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The Gothic Presence of Poland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… Though often idealized, Poland emerges as a gothic presence registering anxieties about culture, imperialism, slavery, the Other, economic ruin, and identity. Using Roland Barthes theory of cultural code, this dissertation looks to nineteenth-century United States newspapers to consider …
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
… filmmakers have adapted common features of the Gothic literary tradition - the imperiled but investigative heroine, the attractive but coercive villain, and the portrait of a female predecessor - to address massive traumas that have been repressed by, but which continue to affect, modern …
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Gothic Views, Romantic Visions: The Spatial Dynamics of Modern Art and Literature
It is widely accepted that the revival of Gothic architecture in England during the eighteenth century, which gradually spread to France and Germany, was one of several touchstones for the transformation of taste which preceded the Romantic movement in literature and the visual arts. The purpose of …
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The future is Gothic: elements of Gothic in dystopian novels
This thesis explores the relationship between the Gothic tradition and Dystopian novels in order to illuminate new perspective on the body in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork …
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Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America
… and naturalist writers frequently employed the gothic mode. In contrast with critics who contend that the gothic is a subversive or disruptive mode, I suggest that the relationship between realism and the gothic is one of collaboration rather than conflict. These modally mixed works, which I …
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Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
… maintained a writing style that is inherently Gothic in nature, but they have also altered the traditional genre’s elements just enough so as to create a new sub-genre which would become known as Southern Gothic. This study will ultimately show how McCullers, Williams and O’Connor essentially – …
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Nomadic intertextuality and postmillennial children's gothic fiction
Since the turn of the twenty first century, Gothic has emerged as one of the most popular forms in which to write for children. Although children’s literature critics and educational professionals were once dubious about the value of scary stories for children, postmillennial Gothic has begun to …
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Gothic urbanism in contemporary African fiction
… narratives by focusing on how they employ Gothic techniques as a means of drawing the African urban landscape into being. The texts that comprise my objects of study are South African author Henrietta Rose-Innes's Nineveh (2011), which takes as its setting contemporary Cape Town; Lagoon …
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Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination
… frequently exhibits the familiar motifs of Gothic literature but the influence of Gothic on his work has never been systematically explored, perhaps because of the genre’s reputation as merely sensational. This study argues for its centrality in the poet’s development. The legacy of Gothic …
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