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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.
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 ...