Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3366/GOTHIC.2021.0080
D. Wise
The early short story ‘The Rats in the Walls’ (1924) is recognized as the best of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction prior to ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, but this story is also non-cosmic and therefore (for some) not truly ‘Lovecraftian’. In conjunction with dense prose and seemingly throwaway references, this view has made ‘Rats’ arguably the most inadequately read of Lovecraft's major works. This article proposes that we read ‘Rats’, Lovecraft's first tale within an unofficial ‘witch cult’ trilogy, as a story of the path not taken in modern weird fiction. Using Henry James's ‘The Jolly Corner’ (1908) as a companion piece, I argue that the international weird forms a major component of Lovecraft's text. Far from portraying horrors merely personal in scope, Lovecraft uses the Delapore family and their geographical dislocations between two distinct nation-states, America and England, to signal what he sees as the historical rise and fall – or evolution and de-evolution – of culture itself.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3366/GOTHIC.2021.0083
David Simmons
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3366/GOTHIC.2021.0084
L. Williams
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3366/GOTHIC.2021.0077
D. Cook
While ‘Wandering Willie's Tale’, above all of Walter Scott's shorter fictions, has often been included in Gothic anthologies and period surveys, the apparently disposable pieces that appeared in The Keepsake for 1829, renegades from the novelist's failed Chronicles of the Canongate series, have received far less attention. Read in the unlikely context of a plush Christmas gift book, ‘My Aunt Margaret's Mirror’ and ‘The Tapestried Chamber’ repay an audience familiar with the conventions of a supernatural short story. But to keep readers interested, The Author of Waverley, writing at the end of a long and celebrated career in fiction, would need to employ some new gimmicks. As we shall see, the late stories are not literary cast-offs but recastings finely attuned to a bespoke word-and-image forum.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-30DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0064
Aris Mousoutzanis
This article discusses the BBC drama Taboo (2017–present) as a contemporary example of imperial Gothic and places the series in the context of a current trend of ‘imperial nostalgia’ in British culture. It provides a close reading of the series with regard to its use of gothic traits like the exploration of morbid psychology, the function of the ghost as a metaphor for past trauma, the use of locale for gothic effect, and the evocation of body horror. By reading this contemporary narrative against this generic tradition, the paper highlights the ability of the Gothic to reflect on historical transformations and contemporary manifestations of discourses of Empire. The series, the discussion argues, seeks to critique Empire by portraying it as the agent of monstrosity and horror but eventually reproduces stereotypes of colonial otherness that were fundamental to imperialist ideologies. In this sense, Taboo is a text just as ambivalent as earlier imperial Gothic texts.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-05DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0060
J. Stewart
This paper explores perfume, scent, and floriography as an aspect of the archetype of the femme fatale, specifically in the context of the late-Victorian Gothic and its afterlives. As an expansion ...
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Pub Date : 2020-11-05DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0066
J. B. Tuttle
{"title":"Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange. By Adam Scovell","authors":"J. B. Tuttle","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2020.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45020770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-05DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0061
Tomáš Kolich
Even though Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892) has received a lot of critical attention, there have been only a few attempts at the visual analysis of the wallpaper. Thi...
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Pub Date : 2020-11-05DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0063
E. Mercer
The recent reissue of Jessie Douglas Kerruish's critically neglected Gothic novel The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension (1922) describes it as ‘dated’ but its more conservative element...
杰西·道格拉斯·克鲁伊什（Jessie Douglas Kerruish）的哥特式小说《不死的怪物：第五维度的故事》（The Undying Monster:A Tale of The Fifth Dimension，1922）最近重新发行，该小说被严重忽视，称其“过时”，但其更保守的元素。。。
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0068
Rebecca Wynne-Walsh
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