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Gothic and Anti-Gothic, 1797–1820
2018This chapter discusses the Gothic from 1797 to 1820. The Gothic reached its apogee in the late 1790s, when it secured a third share of the novel market, after which it withered. From 1797 onward, the Gothic seems inseparable from an anti-Gothic shadow that materialized in myriad forms, from ad hoc animadversions found in the reviews mocking the genre's
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Female Gothic and the Institutionalization of Gothic Studies
Gothic Studies, 2004Does Female Gothic have anything left to offer? Entrenched in Gothic studies for nearly thirty years and increasingly attacked during the past decade, this critical category seems to many to have outlived its usefulness. Nonetheless, there are still critical lessons to be learned from it, as much about the recent history of Gothic criticism as Gothic ...
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Introduction:Postfeminist Gothic
Gothic Studies, 2007This collection of essays addresses and examines the intersection of two much-debated and controversial concepts: postfeminism and Gothic. The resulting category of “postfeminist Gothic”1 demarcates a new space for critical enquiry that re-invigorates previous debates on the Gothic, in particular the notion of the Female Gothic and its relation to ...
Brabon, B., Genz, S.
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Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection
2019Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection in Powers of Horror (1980) has had a profound effect on the analysis of Gothic works. Building on Freud, Lacan, and others, it posits a "throwing over" of the deepest anomalies at the roots of human being - the inseparable intermingling of life and death and self and other at the moment of birth - into what seems an
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2017
This chapter reconsiders Edith Sitwell’s only novel, I Live under a Black Sun, as Gothic fiction opening up a political reading of British colonialism and women’s labor. When read as citing and rewriting Gothic tropes, the earnest moralizing in the text becomes more nuanced.
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This chapter reconsiders Edith Sitwell’s only novel, I Live under a Black Sun, as Gothic fiction opening up a political reading of British colonialism and women’s labor. When read as citing and rewriting Gothic tropes, the earnest moralizing in the text becomes more nuanced.
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Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers
2017In ‘Reading the Gothic and Gothic Readers’ Andrew Smith outlines how recent developments in Gothic studies have provided new ways of critically reflecting upon the nineteenth century. Smith then proceeds to explore how readers and reading, as images of self-reflection, are represented in the fin de siècle Gothic.
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2017
Abstract Gothic criminology was developed in the first decade of the 21st century as a postmodern theoretical model, incorporating elements from key criminological/sociological texts and themes embedded in various literature and film genres, with the goal of highlighting the continued existence of monstrous evil in its various modern ...
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Abstract Gothic criminology was developed in the first decade of the 21st century as a postmodern theoretical model, incorporating elements from key criminological/sociological texts and themes embedded in various literature and film genres, with the goal of highlighting the continued existence of monstrous evil in its various modern ...
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2005
Around 1243 Bonatacca Sansedoni, an outstanding figure on the Sienese diplomatic and military scene as a Ghibelline, bought a house and tower in the San Vigilio district, between the Piazza del Campo and the Via Francigena. This purchase was an opportunity that Bonatacca and his descendants would enhance with the construction, enlargement, and ...
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Around 1243 Bonatacca Sansedoni, an outstanding figure on the Sienese diplomatic and military scene as a Ghibelline, bought a house and tower in the San Vigilio district, between the Piazza del Campo and the Via Francigena. This purchase was an opportunity that Bonatacca and his descendants would enhance with the construction, enlargement, and ...
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