Gothic StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2022.0121
S. Brewster
{"title":"Extimacies: Strange Attachments in James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Margaret Oliphant","authors":"S. Brewster","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2022.0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0121","url":null,"abstract":"The intense, uncanny relationship between intimacy and exclusion, homeliness and strangeness finds evocative expression in the Gothic tales and ghost stories of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Margaret Oliphant. Their narratives resist and open themselves to haunting, with the supernatural alterity they encounter proving oddly familiar and posing fundamental questions about knowledge and subjectivity. In these moments, distinctions between inside and outside in psychic, social and environmental terms are radically unsettled. Using Jacques Lacan’s notion of ‘extimacy,’ an ‘intimate exteriority’ that constitutes an estranged attachment to the stranger within, this article examines the unresolved struggle in Hogg and Stevenson with this intimate yet agitating sense of otherness that disrupts the assertion of identity. Contrastingly, Oliphant attempts to accommodate the extimate, and embraces her obligations to that which haunts.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69552850","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 : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2022.0117
Monica Germanà
{"title":"Ghost-Tours, Body Snatchers, and Optical Illusions: An Introduction to Haunted Scotlands","authors":"Monica Germanà","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2022.0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49108997","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 : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2022.0119
A. Wright
{"title":"The History of the Unfortunate Lady Grange: Gothic Exhumations of a Concealed Scottish Fate","authors":"A. Wright","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2022.0119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0119","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41559975","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 : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0107
N. Schumann
{"title":"Sleeping with the Vampire","authors":"N. Schumann","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0107","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41356727","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 : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0108
Kelly Sauskojus
{"title":"‘I wants to awaken yer bloody clarss consciousness’: Gothic Marxism in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape","authors":"Kelly Sauskojus","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0108","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43374561","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 : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0103
Michael A. Plater
{"title":"‘The Mr. Hyde of Humanity’: Gothic Representations of the Whitechapel Crimes in the Victorian Periodical Press","authors":"Michael A. Plater","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0103","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48390037","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 : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0112
Sandra Aline Wagner
{"title":"Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation. By David Church","authors":"Sandra Aline Wagner","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42307717","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 : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0109
John Paul Riquelme
{"title":"Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature. By Bridget Marshall","authors":"John Paul Riquelme","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43778110","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 : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0095
Helena Bacon, Adam Whybray
{"title":"The Lies of the Land: The Alluvial Formalities of Gothic East Anglia","authors":"Helena Bacon, Adam Whybray","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0095","url":null,"abstract":"East Anglia is an evasive region; with its stretches of grey shingle that give way to silt and water, isolated marshes and great, flat panoramas that are literally falling into the sea. This article will show that East Anglia is a broader and more cohesive site of Gothic tradition and possibility than has previously been recognized, even if that possibility is found both textually and topographically in the incohesive, the ephemeral and the immaterial. We will also suggest that the short form is how this has so far been achieved – most famously in the short ghostly tales of M. R. James; more recently in Matthew Holness's unsettling short story ‘Possum’ (2013) and his 2018 film of the same name – and is, in fact, the most appropriate form for this act of textual production.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44263843","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 : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2021.0093
M. Vuohelainen
{"title":"Traveller's Tales: Rudyard Kipling's Gothic Short Fiction","authors":"M. Vuohelainen","doi":"10.3366/gothic.2021.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0093","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1884 and 1936, Rudyard Kipling wrote over 300 short stories, most of which were first published in colonial and cosmopolitan periodicals before being reissued in short-story collections. This corpus contains a number of critically neglected Gothic stories that fall into four groups: stories that belong to the ghost-story tradition; stories that represent the colonial encounter through gothic tropes of horror and the uncanny but do not necessarily include any supernatural elements; stories that develop an elegiac and elliptical Gothic Modernism; and stories that make use of the First World War and its aftermath as a gothic environment. This essay evaluates Kipling's contribution to the critically neglected genre of the Gothic short story, with a focus on the stories' persistent preoccupation with spatial tropes of travel, disorientation and displacement.","PeriodicalId":42443,"journal":{"name":"Gothic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49273732","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}