Recently added articles from Gothic Studies:
Introduction: Material Gothic
May 01, 2008; ... As Gothic works knock the stuffing out their subject and splatter the remains over the page and screen, their obsessive focus on an economy of decomposing bodies in distress makes a compelling case for the attraction they exert on materialist criticism. A broad and heterogeneous spectrum of left ...
Invasion of the Head: Gothic Dissent in Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus
May 01, 2008; ... The late Dennis Potter's Gothic play Cold Lazarus was screened in 1996 together with its sister play, Karaoke. The BBC and Channel 4 Television collaborated in this venture following Potter's dying wishes, forcefully expressed in his last television interview with Melvin Bragg. While opiates ...
Gothic Economics: Violence and Miscegenation in Jean Toomer's 'Blood-Burning Moon'1
May 01, 2008; ... There is horror because there is not freedom yet (Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics)2 Published in 1923 as part of Cane, Jean Toomer's 'Blood-Burning Moon' provides a Harlem Renaissance adaptation of the Gothic that depicts a nightmarish South still fraught with the ghosts of ...
Transvaal, Transylvania: Dracula's World-system and Gothic Periodicity
May 01, 2008; ... Redefining Gothic: Terrific Representation and Capitalist Cycles If everyday life in capitalist societies is a ghoulish hell, why do generic inscriptions of Gothic narratives and devices tend to re-emerge in swarms at certain discrete periods long after they were thought safely consigned ...
Blood for Oil: Crude Metonymies and Tobe Hooper's Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
May 01, 2008; ... Perhaps the most surprising thing to say about Tobe Hooper's film Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is that it is a predictive analysis of the present political moment: a spiraling narrative of fear in which two inarticulate and goony sons take directions from a sadistic father who demands that ...
Gothic Politics: A discussion with China Miéville
May 01, 2008; ... China Miéville has quickly established himself as a leading contemporary British writer using a blend of fantasy and Gothic themes. His first novel, King Rat, was nominated for award by the International Horror Guild. The Bas Lag trilogy (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council) received ...
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, with Related Texts
May 01, 2008; ... Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, with Related Texts, by Charles Brockden Brown, edited with an Introduction and Notes by Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2006), 269pp., $12.95; ISBN 0872208532. Readers familiar with the ...
The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and its Progeny
May 01, 2008; ... The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and its Progeny, by Jerrold E. Hogle (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), 368pp., $90.00; ISBN 0312293461. In his study of Gaston Leroux's Gothic novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (1910) alongside ...
Bram Stoker: A Literary Life
May 01, 2008; ... Bram Stoker: A Literary Life, by Lisa Hopkins (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), x + 173pp., £45.00 hb; ISBN 978-1-4039-4647-8. If any further proof were needed of Bram Stoker's established canonicity, we have it here in Lisa Hopkins's new book, published by Palgrave as part of their ...
Queer Gothic
May 01, 2008; ... Queer Gothic, by George Haggerty (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006), 231pp., $20.00; ISBN: 0-252-07353-3. The loss of love is the recurring theme that unifies Queer Gothic, an important book that marks the transition away from author-centred readings of sexuality in ...
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
May 01, 2008; ... La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film, by Michael J. Koven (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 2006), 195pp., $30 pb; ISBN 0-8108-5870-1. The genre of Italian giallo film stems from a popular genre of literature: giallo literally means 'yellow' and relates to the ...
Deleuze and Horror Film
May 01, 2008; ... Deleuze and Horror Film, by Anna Powell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005), 240pp., £50 hb, £16.99 pb; ISBN: 978 0 7486 1747/1748 7. When Deleuze's name is invoked my first reaction is often 'be very afraid', to use the phrase spoken by Wednesday Addams in Addams Family Values ...
Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays
May 01, 2008; ... Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays, edited by Andrew Mangham (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 284pp., £34 hb; ISBN 9781847181091. AndrewMangham'sWilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays is an eclectic collection of essays on the popular Victorian writer. The book ...
Introduction: Postfeminist Gothic
Nov 01, 2007; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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 ...