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Journal articles on the topic "Victorian Gothic Fiction"

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Jones, Anna Maria. "CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, INDIVIDUAL AGENCY, AND GOTHIC TERROR IN RICHARD MARSH'STHE BEETLE, OR, WHAT'S SCARIER THAN AN ANCIENT, EVIL, SHAPE-SHIFTING BUG?" Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (2010): 65–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000276.

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There is a familiar critical narrativeabout the fin de siècle, into which gothic fiction fits very neatly. It is the story of the gradual decay of Victorian values, especially their faith in progress and in the empire. The self-satisfied (middle-class) builders of empire were superseded by the doubters and decadents. As Patrick Brantlinger writes, “After the mid-Victorian years the British found it increasingly difficult to think of themselves as inevitably progressive; they began worrying instead about the degeneration of their institutions, their culture, their racial ‘stock’” (230). And thi

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Miquel Baldellou, Marta. "Mary Reilly as Jekyll or Hyde : Neo-Victorian (re)creations of Feminity and Feminism." Journal of English Studies 8 (May 29, 2010): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.154.

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In his article “What is Neo-Victorian Studies?” (2008), Mark Lewellyn argues that the term neo-Victorian fiction refers to works that are consciously set in the Victorian period, but introduce representations of marginalised voices, new histories of sexuality, post-colonial viewpoints and other generally ‘different’ versions of the Victorian era. Valerie Martin’s gothic-romance Mary Reilly drew on Stevenson’s novella to introduce a woman’s perspective on the puzzle of Jekyll and Hyde. Almost twenty-years after the publication of Martin’s novel, the newly established field of research in Neo-Vi

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Bell, Karl. "Gothicizing Victorian Folklore: Spring-heeled Jack and the Enacted Gothic." Gothic Studies 22, no. 1 (2020): 14–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0035.

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This article focuses on the Victorian bogeyman, Spring-heeled Jack, as a historicised example of Gothic and folklore's cultural dialogue and divergences in nineteenth-century Britain. Variously described as a ghost, beast, or devil when he first terrorised Londoners in 1837–38, Spring-heeled Jack evolved from local folklore to press sensation to penny dreadful serials. These texts reworked his folkloric accounts through stories that were heavily indebted to earlier Gothic literature for many of their narrative tropes. The article uses this urban legend to explore what it terms the enacted Goth

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Noad, Benjamin E. "Gothic Truths in the Asylum." Gothic Studies 21, no. 2 (2019): 176–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2019.0021.

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This article suggests that Victorian Gothic prose fictions privilege the voices of madness, where, operating in the historical lunatic asylum, truth is encrypted. It begins by expanding upon the relevant background contexts of the nineteenth century, with focus upon the medicalisation of madness, and goes on to offer fresh critical interpretations of false confinement in two pinnacles of nineteenth-century Gothic fiction: the penny dreadful, The String of Pearls (1846–7), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). The article argues that Gothic writing simultaneously registers and articulates the silen

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Heller, Tamar. "Recent Work on Victorian Gothic and Sensation Fiction." Victorian Literature and Culture 24 (March 1996): 349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150300004484.

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Poore, Benjamin. "The Transformed Beast:Penny Dreadful, Adaptation, and the Gothic." Victoriographies 6, no. 1 (2016): 62–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0211.

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After only one eight-part season, the television series Penny Dreadful, a Showtime/Sky Atlantic co-production, had already become an international success with an active and vocal fanbase. Yet the relationship of the show (which was created and written by John Logan) to the Victorian serial fiction genre, penny dreadfuls, is an oblique one, and worth unpicking. The first part of this article focuses on the task of teasing out the connections between Penny Dreadful and the penny dreadful genre, arguing that the show's title performs significant cultural work in positioning itself in relation to

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Beckwith, Susan Lynne. "A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares (review)." Criticism 43, no. 3 (2001): 360–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crt.2001.0024.

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Kohlke, Marie-Luise. "The Neo-Victorian Doctor and Resurrected Gothic Masculinities." Victoriographies 5, no. 2 (2015): 122–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2015.0189.

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Both neo-Victorian fiction and popular discourse repeatedly reprise the nineteenth-century Gothic doctor figure to represent a crisis of post-Enlightenment masculinity, as well as problematising the past's continuing influence over our own time. From parodic to sinister re-imaginings of transgressive medical men, the trope constitutes a significant schema through which the nineteenth century is filtered, formatted, and reactivated in and for the present. This essay attempts both an overview of the prevalence of this neo-Victorian trope and an exploration of its deployment in a series of litera

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Brakovska, Jelena. "JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU: METAMORPHOSES AND INNOVATIONS IN GOTHIC FICTION." CBU International Conference Proceedings 1 (June 30, 2013): 182–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v1.32.

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Notwithstanding the fact that the Anglo-Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the most popular writers of the British Victorian era, his name and most of his works are not well-known to a common reader. The present research investigates how the author inventively modifies traditional Gothic elements and penetrates them into human’s consciousness. Such Le Fanu’s metamorphoses and innovations make the artistic world of his prose more realistic and psychological. As a result, the article presents a comparative literary study of Le Fanu’s text manipulations which seem to lead to the crea

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Chapman, Alison. "Robert Mighall's A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares." Romanticism 7, no. 1 (2001): 115–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2001.7.1.115.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Victorian Gothic Fiction"

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Psiropoulos, Brian. "Victorian Gothic Materialism: Realizing the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13423.

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This project begins by asking why so many realist novels of the Victorian period also exhibit tropes borrowed from the eighteenth-century gothic romance—its locales, characters, and thematics. While theorizations of realism and of the gothic are plentiful, most studies consider them to be essentially opposed, and so few attempts have been made to explain why they frequently coexist within the same work, or what each figural mode might lend to the other. This dissertation addresses this deficit by arguing that gothic hauntings interpolated into realist fictions figure socio-economic traumas, th

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Bussing, Ilse Marie. "Haunted house in mid-to-late Victorian gothic fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5534.

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This thesis addresses the central role of the haunted house in mid-to-late Victorian Gothic texts. It argues that haunting in fiction derives from distinct architectural and spatial traits that the middle-class Victorian home possessed. These design qualities both reflected and reinforced current social norms, and anxiety about the latter surfaced in Gothic texts. In this interdisciplinary study, literary analysis works alongside spatial examination, under the premise that literature is a space that can be penetrated and deciphered in the same way that buildings are texts that can be read and

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Good, Joseph. "The Dark Circle: Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4053.

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This dissertation offers critical and theoretical approaches for understanding depictions of Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian fiction. Spiritualism has fascinated and repelled writers since the movement's inception in Hydesville, New York, in 1848, and continues to haunt writers even today. The conclusion of this dissertation follows Spiritualist fiction as it carries over into the Neo-Victorian genre, by discussing how themes and images of Victorian Spiritualism find "life after death" in contemporary work. Spiritualism, once confined to the realm of the arcane and academically

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McLeod, Melissa. "Sounds of terror hearing ghosts in Victorian fiction /." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11282007-112908/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Michael Galchinsky, committee chair; Calvin Thomas, Lee Anne Richardson, committee members. Electronic text (181 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 7, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-181).

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White, Troy Nelson. "The Gothic threshold of Sabine Baring-Gould : a study of the Gothic fiction of a Victorian squarson." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35652/.

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This thesis is a study of the Gothic fiction of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834- 1924), with particular attention given to Baring-Gould’s roles as squire and parson. I have chosen to analyze two of Baring-Gould’s Gothic works, the novel Mehalah (1880) and the novella Margery of Quether (1884), both which allow a particularly profitable examination of the influence of Baring-Gould’s roles on his fiction. In studying these texts I apply my theory of Gothic fiction as a particularly modern genre built upon a "Gothic threshold," a meeting point of extreme opposites which ambivalently contrasts and merge

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Stasiak, Lauren Anne. "Victorian professionals, intersubjectivity, and the fin-de-siecle gothic text /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9491.

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Bartlett, Mackenzie Amie. "Laughing to excess : Gothic fiction and the pathologisation of laughter in late Victorian Britain." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539701.

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This thesis places late Victorian medical, biological, and psychological studies of laughter alongside classic examples ofjin-de-siecle gothic fiction in order to consider the discursive links between laughter and pathology. Through an investigation of scientific and pseudoscientific texts that discuss laughter's physicality, as well as its psychological effects, spiritualistic properties, and sound qualities, I suggest that laughter occupied an important and hitherto unexamined role in the cultural history of late Victorian Britain. Stratified into normal and inappropriate forms of expression

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Smith, Andrew. "The Gothic sublime : a study of the changing function of sublimity in representations of subjectivity in nineteenth-century fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240896.

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Milbank, A. "Daughters of the house : Modes of the gothic in the fiction of Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Sheridan Le Fanu." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234621.

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Floyd, William David. "Orphans of British fiction, 1880-1911." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3601.

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Orphans of British Fiction, 1880-1911 Abstract William David Floyd Orphans of British Fiction, 1880-1911 focuses on the depiction of orphans in genre fiction of the Victorian fin-de-siecle. The overwhelming majority of criticism focusing on orphans centers particularly on the form as an early- to middle-century convention, primarily found in realist and domestic works; in effect, the non-traditional, aberrant, at times Gothic orphan of the fin-de-siecle has been largely overlooked, if not denied outright. This oversight has given rise to the need for a study of this potent cultural figure as i

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Books on the topic "Victorian Gothic Fiction"

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Mighall, Robert. A geography of Victorian Gothic fiction: Mapping history's nightmares. Oxford University Press, 1999.

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From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, economics, and Victorian fiction. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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A geography of Victorian Gothic fiction: Mapping history's nightmares. Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Mighall, Robert. A geography of Victorian Gothic fiction: Mapping history's nightmares. Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Andrew, Smith, and Hughes William. The Victorian gothic: An Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

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The Victorian gothic: An Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

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Milbank, Alison. Daughters of the house: Modes of the gothic in Victorian fiction. St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Daughters of the house: Modes of the gothic in Victorian fiction. St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Milbank, Alison. Daughters of the house: Modes of the gothic in Victorian fiction. Macmillan, 1992.

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In darkest London: The gothic cityscape in Victorian literature. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.

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Book chapters on the topic "Victorian Gothic Fiction"

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Morey, Peter. "Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling’s Indian Fiction." In Victorian Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230598737_11.

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Sage, Victor. "Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu’s Fiction." In Victorian Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230598737_2.

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Bulfin, Ailise. "Richard Marsh and the Realist Gothic: Pursuing Traces of an Evasive Author in His Fin-de-Siècle Popular Fiction." In Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51823-1_12.

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Schneider, Ralf. "The Invisible Center: Conceptions of Masculinity in Victorian Fiction—Realist, Crime, Detective, and Gothic." In Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137015877_9.

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Heller, Tamar. "Victorian Domestic Gothic Fiction." In The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Cambridge University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108561082.013.

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"Chasing the Dragon: Bangtails, Toffs, Jack and Johnny in Neo-Victorian Fiction." In Neo-Victorian Gothic. Brill | Rodopi, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401208963_009.

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Hartley, John Cameron. "Death cults in Gothic ‘Lost World’ fiction." In The Gothic and Death. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784992699.003.0009.

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This chapter examines the ‘Lost World’ genre, a staple of late-Victorian popular fiction, exemplified by H. Rider Haggard’s stories featuring Allan Quatermain, and Ayesha, known as She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. These fin-de-siècle tales, while ostensibly celebrating British Imperialism and the continuation of colonial power, reveal layers of anxiety concerning degeneration, the collapse of civilisation, the rise of the Victorian ‘new woman’, and perhaps most potently the fear of death. Canadian writer James De Mille, in his book A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, inverted Victorian values to satirise the capitalist economy, and the glorification of war, by creating the Lost World of the Kosekin where wealth is a burden and death worshipped. The presentation of the Lost World as a Gothic Space allows for a critical examination of the way that Victorian cultural certainties were challenged, by divergent belief systems, and the mystery and terror of death.

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"‘Jack the Ripper’ as Neo-Victorian Gothic Fiction: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Sallies into a Late Victorian Case and Myth." In Neo-Victorian Gothic. Brill | Rodopi, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401208963_008.

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Dzelzainis, Ella. "Silver-fork, industrial, and Gothic fiction." In The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cco9781107587823.009.

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Robert, Mighall. "From Udolpho to Spitalfields: Mapping Gothic London." In A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199262182.003.0002.

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