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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Gothic horror"”.
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Gothic Horror and Scientific Education in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Haunted and Hunted: The Gothic and the Ghostly in The Light and Asylum
<p>Young adult Gothic horror fiction acts as a coming-of-age story wherein the protagonists must confront the metaphorical and literal ghosts while simultaneously attempting to establish a sense of identity. Applying Gothic theory and ghost theory to the ghostly stories in young adult Gothic horror …
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… has since become a seminal example of Gothic horror at the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>, leading not only to film, stage, and television adaptations, but also to literary reimaginings and a plethora of scholarship. I argue that the vampires in <em>Dracula </em>do not fit into the traditional …
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Italienischer Faschismus und deutscher Nationalsozialismus im italienischen Genrefilm
… The following genres are discussed: peplum, gothic horror, italowestern, giallo, poliziesco, and nazi exploitation.
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The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
… well-known classical literature with traditional horror monsters. In PPZ, the nineteenth-century novel of manners is introduced to the twentieth century monster of the Americas, the zombie. Through this combination, new interpretations of feminism, otherness, epidemics, and Gothic horror can be …
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The Dark House and its Inhabitants
<p>From the inception of the genre, Gothic horror has been fixated on the domestic space in distress. This essay explores domestic archetypes and roles of the Gothic novel, serving as a “tour of the house”, analyzing the iconography of the dark castle, and how it externalizes and exacerbates the …
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"And a sad ditty of this story born": Regeneration through Decay in John Keats's Isabella
… has also been studied in regard to its gothic horror elements. Such previous readings identify a theme of mortality and decay within the poem, but I argue these themes serve a larger purpose, one related to the possibilities created by regeneration. Isabella, a young woman whose lover, …
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Dark Doubles and Dual Audience: What Uncanny Doppelgangers in Children’s Literature Teach Readers
… in suspenseful genres like the thriller or gothic horror, which many consider unsuitable to young children. Accordingly, research on uncanny doppelgangers in literature focuses on adult fiction. Studies on the motif’s use in children’s stories mostly turn to “logical” doppelgangers, namely …
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“More than What [They] Made Us to Be”: From Passing to Perception in Victorian and Modern Vampire Media
<p>Throughout Victorian Gothic horror fiction, vampires function as deviant figures, maneuvering within social confines of passing until their status quo-threatening identity is exposed. Of the popular vampires from this period, most gradually fail to maintain status as social insiders—as …
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The Lodger
… supernatural folk tale, The Lodger will be a neogothic novel that is heavily influenced by discourses surrounding the concept of the sublime and by ideas of feminist medicine.</p> <p>Drawing on conventions of Gothic horror, The Lodger will be characterized by supernatural themes, elements of …
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The Rise of Romantasy: Female Desire, Monstrous Feminists, Fairy Tale Ideology, and Societal Panic
… Tracing a historical continuum across Gothic horror, fairy tale discourse, and contemporary fantasy romance, I contend that patriarchal ideology has long constructed women according to a restrictive binary: either silent and compliant, or monstrous and punishable. Drawing on theorists …