Recently added articles from Gothic Studies:
Introduction: Postfeminist Gothic
Nov 01, 2007; Brabon, Benjamin; Genz, Stéphanie ... This collection of essays aims to consider the intersection of two much debated and controversial concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. In so doing, it introduces a new analytical category and circumscribes a dynamic space for critical exchange that we designate 'Postfeminist Gothic'. It is our ...
The (Post)Feminist Politics of Cyberpunk
Nov 01, 2007; Gillis, Stacy ... In Cyberpunk and Cyberculture (2000), Dani Cavallaro identifies a new account of the Gothic, one which is at home in cyberspace and the representations thereof. She terms this the '(cyber)Gothic'.1 Cavallaro discusses the ways in which science fiction 'has developed Gothic themes and modalities, ...
From Suspicion (1941) to Deceived (1991): Gothic Continuities, Feminism and Postfeminism in the Neo-Gothic Film
Nov 01, 2007; Hanson, Helen ... The Gothic mode is extremely fertile and malleable. With roots in eighteenth century sensation fictions, it has repeatedly renewed itself, arising in nineteenth century literary fiction, and extending to filmic and televisual forms in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The gothic mode has ...
Birthing an Undead Family: Reification of the Mother's Role in the Gothic Landscape of 28 Days Later
Nov 01, 2007; Williams, G Christopher ... From the infectious nature of zombie bites in Night of the Living Dead1 (1968) to the disease transmitting blood of 28 Days Later's2 (2003) 'Infected', the zombie's viral nature has long suggested that such creatures are interested in little else but satiating their hunger and multiplying their ...
Sucking the Blood Out of Second Wave Feminism: Postfeminist Vampirism in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride
Nov 01, 2007; Tolan, Fiona ... Margaret Atwood published her eighth novel, The Robber Bride, in 1993, when the term 'postfeminism' was becoming an increasingly prevalent concept in Anglo- American feminism. The Robber Bride depicts three characteristically second wave women - Roz the power-suited businesswoman, Charis the ...
'The Desecration of the Temple'; or, 'Sexuality as Terrorism'? Angela Carter's (Post-)feminist Gothic Heroines
Nov 01, 2007; Munford, Rebecca ... Two hundred years ago Ann Radcliffe introduced Gothic conventions into the mainstream of English fiction. For the first time the process of feminine sexual initiation found respectable, secular expression. Yet the terms of this expression were ultimately limiting. It is important to recognize ...
North-East Gothic: Surveying Gender in Pat Barker's Fiction
Nov 01, 2007; Gamble, Sarah ... Another World, published in 1998, was Pat Barker's successor to the highly successful trilogy of novels set during the First World War she published between 1992 and 1995: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road. What is most striking about these texts is their portrayal of the ...
At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture
Nov 01, 2007; Williams, Anne ... At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture, by Edward J. Ingebretsen (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002), ISBN: 0226380076, 341 pp. +xvi, $40.00; pb $28:00. In this compelling study of contemporary 'monsters', Edward J. Ingebretsen examines the ways ...
Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture
Nov 01, 2007; Cass, Jeffrey ... Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture, by John G. Cawelti (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), ISBN: 0-299-19630-5, 408 pp., $65 hb; ISBN: 0-299-19634-8, $21.95, pb. John G. Cawelti's recent collection of essays, Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture, represents far ...
Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction: Speaking of Dread
Nov 01, 2007; Davison, Carol Margaret ... Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction: Speaking of Dread, by Sue Chaplin (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), ISBN: 13 978-0-7546-3306- 8, 172 pp., £45/$89.95. In her book Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction: Speaking of Dread, ...
Teaching the Gothic
Nov 01, 2007; Hoeveler, Diane Long ... Anna Powell and Andrew Smith (eds), Teaching the Gothic (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006), ISBN: 1-4039-4929-8 hb, ISBN: 1-4039-49301 pb, 214 pp. +xxi, £16.99 pb, £55.00 hb. As the co-editor of another volume of essays with an almost identical title, Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction ...
The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film
Nov 01, 2007; Allard, James ... The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film, by Jack Morgan (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002), ISBN 0-8093-2471-7, 263 pp., $28.50. Near the end of The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film, Jack Morgan suggests that 'horror literature ...
The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape
Nov 01, 2007; Roulston, Helen H ... The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, by Reynold Humphries (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006), 300 pp., $45.00; ISBN-10: 081085726X. As the Chair of the Film Studies Minor at Murray State University, I have been much impressed by the thoroughly ...
Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952
Nov 01, 2007; Vance, John A ... Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952, by Richard J. Hand (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006), ISBN: 0-7864-2367-6, 184 pp., $45.00. Not long into Richard Hand's excellent study of American horror radio we confront the sad truth that there are few ...
Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion
Nov 01, 2007; Willis, Martin ... Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion, by Allan Conrad Christensen (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2005), ISBN: 041536048X, 350 pp., £85.00. Allen Conrad Christensen's analysis of nineteenth-century fictional narratives of contagion opens without preamble or ...
Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion
Nov 01, 2007; Zlosnik, Sue ... Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion, project editor, Jessica Bomarito, foreword by Jerrold E. Hogle (Thomson Gale, 2006), 3 vols, 1,650 pp., US $385.00; UK £230, ISBN-13: 978 0787694708, ISBN-10: 078 7694703 Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion, eBook version (Thomson Gale, ...