Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0111
Chloe Carroll
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0107
N. Schumann
Comparing Dracula to contemporary YA literature, including the Blue Bloods and House of Night series, this paper traces a variety of vampiric characteristics that have survived the eras these works have crossed. These include the use of gender, the vampire’s attitude towards their victims, and how these change through the ages, as well as vampiric sexuality. As more vampire literature is written by women, the fanged fiends become very modern young women and the result loses nothing of the danger or sex appeal their nineteenth-century ancestors had. Female voices, both of authors and narrators, constitute an important shift in vampire literature that combines the old femme fatale trope with women’s independence. This paper will document this development and show that as horror brings the vampire to school the genre takes its next step to immortality that is by no means boring, creating complex vampire characters that can be heroines and demons alike.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0108
Kelly Sauskojus
American playwright Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape stages the vast distance between classes, or what Karl Marx terms alienation, as a Gothic narrative, where two wildly different characters – Yank, a rough, violent stokerman in the bowels of an ocean steamer, and Mildred, a bored, anemic society girl from the top decks – confront and interpret each other as lifeless, inhuman monsters, both destructive and incomprehensible. By situating the characters in their social and material contexts, this new Gothic reading takes into account the text’s central concern of class conflict while acknowledging the limits of a purely Marxist interpretation. Instead, this reading maintains the tension between its overlapping ideas about the divisions wrought by class, labor, and economic systems, and the failures of modern rationality to address or even describe the resulting horrors stemming from laborers’ alienation from their labor, themselves, and other humans.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0103
Michael A. Plater
This article examines the influence of Gothic fiction on nineteenth-century British media accounts of the Whitechapel ‘Jack the Ripper’ murders. It argues that, rather than simply drawing on these Gothic modes and traditions for ‘sensational’ purposes, the press used them to explore wider concerns and anxieties in relation to selfhood, identity, and the unconscious mind. It proposes that, in doing so, the Ripper narrative acted as an important intersection between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in late-Victorian society, allowing commentators (and the greater population) to engage with key emergent psychological, sociological, and scientific concerns.
{"title":"‘The Mr. Hyde of Humanity’: Gothic Representations of the Whitechapel Crimes in the Victorian Periodical Press","authors":"Michael A. Plater","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0103","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the influence of Gothic fiction on nineteenth-century British media accounts of the Whitechapel ‘Jack the Ripper’ murders. It argues that, rather than simply drawing on these Gothic modes and traditions for ‘sensational’ purposes, the press used them to explore wider concerns and anxieties in relation to selfhood, identity, and the unconscious mind. It proposes that, in doing so, the Ripper narrative acted as an important intersection between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in late-Victorian society, allowing commentators (and the greater population) to engage with key emergent psychological, sociological, and scientific concerns.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48390037","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 : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0112
Sandra Aline Wagner
{"title":"Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation. By David Church","authors":"Sandra Aline Wagner","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42307717","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 : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0109
John Paul Riquelme
{"title":"Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature. By Bridget Marshall","authors":"John Paul Riquelme","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43778110","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 : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0097
Taylor D. Duckett
{"title":"Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures. By Solimar Otero","authors":"Taylor D. Duckett","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69552815","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 : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0095
Helena Bacon, Adam Whybray
East Anglia is an evasive region; with its stretches of grey shingle that give way to silt and water, isolated marshes and great, flat panoramas that are literally falling into the sea. This article will show that East Anglia is a broader and more cohesive site of Gothic tradition and possibility than has previously been recognized, even if that possibility is found both textually and topographically in the incohesive, the ephemeral and the immaterial. We will also suggest that the short form is how this has so far been achieved – most famously in the short ghostly tales of M. R. James; more recently in Matthew Holness's unsettling short story ‘Possum’ (2013) and his 2018 film of the same name – and is, in fact, the most appropriate form for this act of textual production.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0093
M. Vuohelainen
Between 1884 and 1936, Rudyard Kipling wrote over 300 short stories, most of which were first published in colonial and cosmopolitan periodicals before being reissued in short-story collections. This corpus contains a number of critically neglected Gothic stories that fall into four groups: stories that belong to the ghost-story tradition; stories that represent the colonial encounter through gothic tropes of horror and the uncanny but do not necessarily include any supernatural elements; stories that develop an elegiac and elliptical Gothic Modernism; and stories that make use of the First World War and its aftermath as a gothic environment. This essay evaluates Kipling's contribution to the critically neglected genre of the Gothic short story, with a focus on the stories' persistent preoccupation with spatial tropes of travel, disorientation and displacement.
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