Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2022.0117
Monica Germanà
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2022.0124
Monica Germanà
Focussing on the spatial dimension of historical haunting, this article analyses the depiction of northern scenery in contemporary Scottish cinema, to highlight a shift from the romanticised landscape of historical figurations of Scottish identity to a territory haunted both by the nation’s past traumas and its dark secrets. I examine Scott Graham’s film Shell (2012) and Gordon Napier’s 1745: An Untold Story of Slavery (2017) to demonstrate how, while they reference the sublime aesthetics and identity politics conventionally attached to the representation of the north and the cultural construction of the Scottish Highlands, these films also interrogate the relationship between history and landscape. Shell and 1745 consequently point to an ambivalent definition of belonging, made more complicated by the specific historical and political references rooted in the landscape. The Scottish north is unveiled as an uncanny territory, where a sense of belonging based on established national history narratives is replaced by the subversive (re)possession of the landscape by the less visible stories that continue to haunt it: the contemporary legacy of Highland Clearances in Shell and Scotland’s involvement in Empire and slavery in 1745.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2022.0118
Martha McGill
This article explores the popularisation of the concept of haunted space in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland. While earlier ghost stories were usually about the haunting of people, the rise of Gothic and Romantic literary aesthetics fuelled a new interest in both the Scottish landscape, and the dramatic potential of lurking spectres. Amid the upheaval of industrialisation and the Highland Clearances, and in a period when Scots were still wrestling with the implications of the 1707 Union, authors recorded stories of wandering ghosts as part of a broader movement to fashion a distinctive identity rooted in a specific cultural context. Against the frequently broad scope of academic literature on spectrality, this article draws attention to the crucial significance of contextual nuances and specific historical and social circumstances. In particular, it points to the fraught politics of loss and repossession in relation to the Highlands’ history of depopulation and modernisation, casting a fresh light on the historical events that have given shape to Scottish haunted space.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2022.0119
A. Wright
Forgotten, concealed histories can return with a vengeance to haunt the imagination of a nation. This article explores the seldom-discussed history of the abduction, long-term imprisonment and falsified burial of Lady Grange, who was kidnapped from Edinburgh by allies of her estranged husband, and then slowly transported to St Kilda where she spent the following nine years. It is a tale upon which James Boswell commented when he toured Scotland with Samuel Johnson, and which, in the wake of Boswell's commentary, entered the Gothic imaginary, first through the romances of Ann Radcliffe. Although marital imprisonment was sadly all too widespread during the eighteenth century, with numerous sources to choose from, the history of Lady Grange, blocked for four decades after her death, returned to haunt the pages of romances and periodical articles in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After examining what James Boswell wrote about Lady Grange, the article focuses on two romances of Ann Radcliffe, her 1789 The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne and her 1790 A Sicilian Romance. The article then looks at William Erskine's 1798 Epistle from Lady Grange and concludes by reflecting upon the unblocking of the story in the nineteenth-century periodical press.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0111
Chloe Carroll
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0108
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.2021.0107
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.2021.0103
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.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0112
Sandra Aline Wagner
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0109
John Paul Riquelme
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