They were rewarded with popular success, large profits, and even critical adulation. E.J. Clery's acclaimed study tells the strange but true story of women's gothic. She identifies contemporary ...
This chapter compares Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014) and The Nightingale (2019) in terms of their explicit construction of violence conducted by and against women. Both films draw on the gothic ...
The Gothic Revival was a conscious movement that began in England to revive medieval Gothic forms, from the second half of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century. The 18th century examples ...
Please verify your email address. The Gothic genre employs themes of degradation, horror, emotionalism over objectivity, and the supernatural to elicit wonder ...
The classic romantic novel has become synonymous with the idea of the Female Gothic: where women are trapped in a domestic space and dominated by men. In addition it includes many other Gothic ...
Two years before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she penned the gothic romance A Long Fatal Love Chase, which was published nearly a century after the author's death. The story follows ...
minimalist clothing and fly-away-free hair in a tight, low bun, clean girl aesthetic is the antithesis of the dark, vibrant, Victorian glam goth that elevates and empowers the women in the ...
Leonor Fini's powerful women are often dressed in flourishes ... In 1949's The Angel of Anatomy, Fini does away with clothes, making gothic magic of the human form; the central figure has only ...