Gothic StudiesPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0059
Connor Gould
{"title":"‘The Creature We All Are’: Deleuze and Guattari's Geophilosophy in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves","authors":"Connor Gould","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2020.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0059","url":null,"abstract":"Mark Z. Danielewski's 2000 debut novel House of Leaves has rapidly become a gothic cult classic, detested by some and acclaimed by others with identical passion. This article explores the new approaches that contemporary ecocriticism appears to be taking, embracing the geophilosophical theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to uncover the presence of the ‘monstrous vegetal’ throughout the novel. It argues that the vegetal images of the rhizome and the tree, illustrated within Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus reveal the way in which the titular house becomes horrifying through its similarities to a growing, organic creature. Indeed, it is its horrifying sense of uncontrollable and incomprehensible growth that overwhelms the characters’ bodies and minds before eventually infringing upon the reading experience as we are forced to acknowledge the house's, and by extension the vegetal's, complete alterity to human existence.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"231-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42889047","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}
Gothic StudiesPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0069
Carly Hunter
{"title":"Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality. Edited by Eleanor Beal and Jonathan Greenway","authors":"Carly Hunter","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2020.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"352-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44317574","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}
Gothic StudiesPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0071
D. Seed
{"title":"The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age. By John Woolf","authors":"D. Seed","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2020.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"357-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46651313","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}
Gothic StudiesPub Date : 2020-10-08DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2022.0122
Timothy C. Baker
{"title":"‘A Different World’: Dorothy K. Haynes's Domestic Horror","authors":"Timothy C. Baker","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2022.0122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0122","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout Dorothy K. Haynes's work Scotland is presented as uniquely infused with the supernatural and tied to the ballad tradition. Although Haynes published widely in the middle decades of the twentieth century, and her work was republished in two ‘best of’ collections in 1981 and 1996, her stories remain underexamined. At her best, Haynes might be thought of as Scotland's answer to Shirley Jackson; her work is characterised by a prevailing sardonic humour and matter-of-fact approach to supernatural events. Haynes, however, approaches her Scottish setting in two very distinct ways. In her historical stories, often centring on witch trials, the physical landscape is richly described, and at times appears to have a haunting agency of its own. Her stories with contemporary settings, on the contrary, focus primarily on domestic interiors. In many of these stories, such as ‘Double Summer Time’, ‘The Nest’, and ‘The Wink’, the natural world is an intrusive, disruptive force. Examining such stories alongside more famous tales of the everyday supernatural, including ‘The Peculiar Case of Mrs Grimmond’, reveals the complexity of Haynes's approach to the supernatural, which challenges oppositions between familiar and unfamiliar, natural and supernatural and interior and exterior. Haynes's work reshapes the Scottish environment to show the instability of modern life, and the prevalence of older forms of storytelling and enmeshment in the natural world.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42723932","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}
Gothic StudiesPub Date : 2020-07-20DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0044
Anna Williams
{"title":"Grad School Gothic: The Mysteries of Udolpho and the Academic #MeToo Movement","authors":"Anna Williams","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2020.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0044","url":null,"abstract":"In the age of #MeToo, the Female Gothic rises from the critical crypt once again. Examining the educational narrative of Emily St. Aubert in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, I argue that t...","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"115-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46954959","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}
Gothic StudiesPub Date : 2020-07-20DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0050
Nancee Reeves
{"title":"Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and Environment. Edited by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Downing Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism. Edited by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden","authors":"Nancee Reeves","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2020.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"214-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42619770","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}
Gothic StudiesPub Date : 2020-07-20DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2020.0053
J. Elmore
{"title":"Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siècle to the Millennium. Edited by Hutchison, Sharla and Rebecca Brown","authors":"J. Elmore","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2020.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2020.0053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"222-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46279124","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}