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The Nebuly Coat de John Meade Falkner : mélange des genres, unité du mythe personnel

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2003
After having written a ghost story with The Lost Stradivarius and a story for boys with Moonfleet, John Meade Falkner once again uses the rules of genre literature for his third and last novel, The Nebuly Coat, which presents a plot based on a dubious ...
Isabelle Guillaume
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Supernatural Agents of the Unconscious Mind: The Gothic Mode in Hamlet and Macbeth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej ...
Wiśniewska, Dorota J.
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 338-358, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on William Burges and E. W. Godwin

open access: yes19
This article examines the decades-long friendship between two prominent art-architects of the nineteenth century: William Burges (1827–1881) and E. W. Godwin (1833–1886).
Susan Weber
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Eleanor Coade and Horace Walpole's Gothic Gateway: A Study in Eighteenth‐Century Business Practice

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 149-176, June 2025.
Abstract Artificial stone manufacturer Eleanor Coade (1733–1821) was the outstanding female entrepreneur of the eighteenth century, running her own successful business for some fifty years. Her name became a nationally recognized brand, and her firm's architectural and sculptural stoneware products are still ubiquitous.
Caroline Stanford
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Gothic Revival churches designed by Stanislaw Majerski located in Podkarpacie District

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2018
The main purpose of this article was to perform an analysis of the geometric characteristics for Gothic Revival churches located in the Podkarpacie District.
Gosztyła Marek, Lichołai Rafał
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The Baptist Church in Warren: Rehabilitation and Preservation Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Baptist Church in Warren is located in the Warren Waterfront Historic National Register District. Warren also has a Voluntary Historic District. Both the National Register Nomination and the Voluntary Historic District have regulations which pertain ...
Bambara, Lauren   +4 more
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'From grade B thrillers to deluxe chillers': prestige horror, female audiences, and allegories of spectatorship in The Spiral Staircase (1946) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper examines the prestige ‘shocker’ The Spiral Staircase (1946), suggesting that it challenges the perception of the decline in quality in the horror genre in the 1940s, as well as assumptions in scholarship that the genre has historically been ...
Snelson, Tim
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Literary Festivals as Makers of the Global Novel

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that literary festivals are crucial agents in the contemporary global literary landscape, actively shaping the ‘global novel’ and the ‘global writer’. It contends that traditional literary criticism has understudied the role of cultural market agents like festivals, emphasizing instead the globalization of the novelistic ...
Ana Gallego Cuiñas
wiley   +1 more source

Pointed Arches, Papist Danger. The Echoes of the Debate on the Church Architecture in the Victorian Novel

open access: yesSacrum et Decorum, 2011
In English culture Gothic architecture enjoyed ambiguous reputation: on one hand, it was obviously connected with pre-Reformation times and therefore suspect.
Monika Mazurek
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