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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Gothic novel"”.
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Charles Brockden Brown: a Redefinition of the Gothic Novel
The Gothic novel enjoyed its early success between the years 1764 and 1820. The genre originated in England with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and continues until the present day as a popular and profitable form of literature. The American author Charles Brockden Brown …
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Mermaid in the Bathtub: A Speculative Southern Female Gothic Novel
<p>Mermaid in the Bathtub is a Southern female gothic novel set in 1931 rural East Texas. Minnie is a seventeen-year-old woman, married off so her father can find work during the deepening depression and failure of their cotton crop. She is betrothed to Thomas, the Pastor’s son, and doesn’t quite …
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The transforming muses: stage appropriations of the gothic novel in the 1790s.
… discussion of the stage appropriations of Gothic novels and dramas in the 1790. Works discussed in detail include: *The Monk*, *The Romance of the Forest*, *The Castle Spectre* and their adaptations, re-writings and afterlives. The author examines many intersemiotic practices in the above …
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Remember the Country and the Age in Which We Live": The British Gothic Novel in the Age of Enlightenment, 1764-1798
… Age in Which We Live” argues that the British Gothic novels produced in the late eighteenth century were not, as has traditionally been assumed, written in reaction against Enlightenment values in the face of rising political and social discord. Instead, I contend that eighteenth-century Gothic …
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SURREALIST CASTLE CULTURE: GOTHIC TRACES IN SURREALIST AESTHETICS
… the relationship between Surrealism and the Gothic novel. To date, few studies have examined why the Gothic novel appealed to the Surrealist sensibility. In particular, the neo-Gothic referents in Surrealist visual art have been largely ignored. The clearest connection between Surrealism and …
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Early Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Impact of the Gothic
… beginning of the eighteenth century the word "gothic" was used in a highly derogatory manner. By the end of the century, however, the ideas embodied in the word came to have aesthetic validity. When the second edition of Horace Walpole's novel, The Castle of Otranto, appeared in 1765, it was …
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The caretaker
This thesis consists of a fictional novella generally responding to the traditional conventions of the gothic novel. The story is about Gertrude Means, a recent widow who, upon learning that she is about to lose her house, takes a job as caretaker of an old estate called Paradiso. While at …
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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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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
<p>The Gothic novel plays on the exaggeration of prescribed sex roles and uses various narrative techniques to produce a social commentary on gender politics and to illustrate the consequences of a destroyed social structure. Through the examination of the construct of the Gothic narrative and its …
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GENDERED GENRE CONVENTIONS IN SOPHIA LEE’S THE RECESS
… a key role in the development of the British novel. Written in the period between the rise of sentimental novels like Richardson’s Clarissa and Pamela in the 1740s and the explosion of popular historical-Gothic romances in the 1790s, Lee’s novel combines and experiments with the emerging …
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Dead ringers recalling obsolete machines in living rooms
… machines. The production evokes Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818). The research draws on cautionary tales of mechanisation and interpretations of monsters as cultural disruptors; thus the project positions rearticulated obsolete machines as agents of …
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From Villain to Hero: Traces of the Gothic Villain/Hero in Four Modern Films
<p>The Gothic novel of the 19th century js often viewed as the beginning and end of the "true" Gothic. While its role in creating or contributing to other genres, such as Science Fiction, Horror, and Romance, is widely recognized, the view of the Gothic as a "dead" genre often persists. The Gothic …
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Beyond This Point Are Monsters
… and the inscribed surface of the house in the Gothic novel, performing the romantic and sensational tropes of the Gothic formula in order to subvert them. The project investigates and inhabits the soap opera <em>Dark Shadows</em> which aired daily on ABC from 1966 to 1971, and examines the …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… is to investigate Thomas Hardy’s relation to the Gothic tradition, especially that deriving from the classic period 1760-mid-1820s. The main novels chosen for such an investigation are Two on a Tower, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. Parallels with the …
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The Forbidden Female: Epistemophilia in the Domestic Gothic Tradition
Women in eighteenth-century Gothic novels are often portrayed by scholars as mildly rebellious in their characters and behaviors, but ultimately submissive to male characters until eventually returning to domestic circumstances similar to their origins. I join these scholarly conversations about …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… including the keyed secret history and the Gothic novel, each of which may be considered a form of “historical romance” and each of which played their own roles in meditating British consciousness of the relationship between past and present. The formal characteristics of historical romance …
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"Something old and dark has got its way": Shakespeare's Influence in the Gothic Literary Tradition
… role as the most significant precursor to the Gothic author in Britain, suggesting that Shakespeare used the same literary conventions that Gothic writers embraced as they struggled to create a new subgenre of the novel. By borrowing from Shakespeare’s canon, these novelists aimed to persuade …
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Keeping "body and soul together": Rosa Coldfield's gothic voice in absalom, absalom!
Within the context of the female gothic genre, Rosa’s hysteric personality allows her voice to control aspects of the story and the narrative that would be limited to her as just a peripheral character, the spinster aunt. The first section of this essay, “Absalom, Absalom! as Rosa’s Text,” argues …
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Reading Dario Argento's 'Inferno' (Italy)
… While I discuss Inferno’s relation to the Gothic and melodrama in Part IV, its participation in, and resistance to, the giallo genre is particularly relevant to our discussion of high and low art. Following the summary of Argento’s oeuvre and an overview of existing scholarship concerning …
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