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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Gothic Mode"”.
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Objects, People, and Landscapes of Terror: Considering the Sublime through the Gothic Mode in Late 19th Century Novels
In this master’s thesis, I explore how theories of the sublime are negotiated in three Victorian novels and how they relate to issues of foreignness and gender in the nineteenth century. The introduction provides an overview of each chapter and outlines key theorists and theories of the sublime …
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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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“Where Are We?": New Directions and Global Turns in the American Southern Gothic of the 21st Century
… and Global Turns in the American Southern Gothic of the 21st Century,” charts new directions and global currents in American Southern discourse and regional studies, specifically by examining the modern Southern gothic mode. Modern imperialist practices of globalization and late …
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Re-situating the body : history, myth, and the contemporary women's writings in English and Japanese
… fantastic and more conventional narrative modes. Though the majority of Japanese writers are still working within a broadly realistic mode, those writers analysed here use fantastic mode as a weapon of formal and ideological subversion. The writers analysed include Angela Carter (who lived …
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The Ecological and the ecoGothic in German Literature and Culture (1885-1930)
… on the emerging literary discourse on the ecoGothic, it argues that writers during this period of literary modernism draw upon the Gothic as a mode which destabilises control and order. The Gothic here is found in violent and dangerous natural environments, in the collapse of boundaries …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… domesticity and femininity in the context of Gothic literature and photography. These four objects can only be read in their interplay with each other and how they each function as structural principles in the framework of Gothic fiction and photography. The literary texts, Charlotte Perkins …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… of the French Revolution. Deploying the gothic mode, Eliot rewrites characters from Carlyle's History of the French Revolution, and Dickens's Little Dorrit, to interrogate the tendency of the English to view all people like themselves as the elect, and to vilify and shame those who …
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Underground literature: Reshaping gender and nation in British and Irish fiction, 1871-1935
… Earth tradition. Chapter One identifies four modes working together to form the unique narrative resonances and affordances of fictional underground spaces: the scientific, the science fictional, the Gothic, and the utopian. The following chapter resituates the previously instrumentalized …