Hello, I am currently developing a topic for a 25page paper i will be writing starting in october. the focus is mainly on the gothic fiction of the united...
Lisa, Another story you might take a look at, sorry the title escapes me right now, but it is written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The story is set at a ...
... I believe the story you're referring to is "The Hall Bedroom" - not by LeFanu but by the underappreciated Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (American, 1853-1930)....
... Thanks Jack, Yes, that is the story I was thinking about. Sorry about getting the author wrong too. I love Freeman's writings too, she has a lot of great ...
The Mezzotint by M. R. James. Though that may be too modern for your needs. Regards Julia Morgan ... __________________________________________________ Do you...
Hi everyone, I'm sorry to be so long in thanking you for your help in locating texts with animated tapestries and portraits, or artwork that discloses secrets...
_And_ artwork? Don't get me started again. BTW, I'm in the process of doing up a great one for your tapestry collection: _Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady_ by...
Ok, one more try--I actually have a page that has art-related horror lit (and failed to remember when I did the first response yesterday). Anyway, if your...
I just joined after finding an archived '98 post in alt.gothic mentioning the formation of this discussion list. I've merely been wondering what others might...
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Nov 7, 2002 11:16 pm
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I'm not saying these are the 'best' but I found _Gothic Fiction: A Master List of Twentieth Century Criticism and Research_ and _The First Gothics: A Critical...
Lesley Clark
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Nov 8, 2002 7:34 am
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... mentioning the ... others ... mainly ... smaller ... You might try Ann Tracy, she has one "The Gothic Novel 1790 to 1830" with plot summaries and an index...
Hello, As an English student, with interests in women's studies and queer theory, I am curious as to what extent Gothic literature is an outlet for women or...
Hi.Does this particular discussion group focus on "original" or British Gothic literature only, or does it allow for discussion on American Gothic? Just...
... I'm currently reading Richard Davenport-Hines's "Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin". He deals with the issue of homosexuality ...
... In the last few months we haven't been focussing on anything at all, the list has been exceptionally quiet, but in the past we've discussed contemporary ...
What influences are prevalent in Gothic literature? I've considered the Graveyard poets and works with influence from the fantastic (Spenser, Shakespeare), but...
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Nov 8, 2002 6:02 pm
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... Walpole was the first to specifically apply the term 'Gothic' to a work of literature - The subtitle of _The Castle Of Otranto_ is "A Gothic Story." ...
... the ... (Spenser, ... Walpole? Matthew (message 666, nice one, Matthew!) gives an excellent idea of the huge range of influences (to those older ones, I...
... I just joined this group, so I don't know if this is too late to be any help. I expect you will want to consider the ruined castles and abbeys from the...
... I think its a matter of where do you want to draw the line. I don't think the graveyard school is as much an influence as it is cracked up to be. I think...
... the ... (Spenser, ... just Walpole? It is just Walpole; The Beginning and after him The Deluge. Walpole wrote Otranto in 1764. He had a dream, and...
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Nov 11, 2002 4:50 pm
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It is just Walpole; The Beginning and after him The Deluge. Walpole wrote Otranto in 1764. He had a dream, and remembered that he was in an old castle. The...
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Many good suggestions in the replies. If we should study the Origins very detailed, in the mood of the time of Walpole 1717-1797, we might take a closer look...
... ... the disintegration of the castle from the mightly Castle of Otranto to the crumbling edifice of Udolpho. The principle notion of the ruin is...
I thought Matthew right on when he wrote: "However, the genre of the Gothic can be said to be the first style of literature where an author's primary objective...
"Allen T. Hazen's A catalogue of Horace Walpole's library (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969, 3 vols.)" I really like this! I will have to look for it. I...
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Nov 12, 2002 1:53 pm
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Strawberry Hill. Twickenham Has anyone visited Horace Walpoles fairy-tale gothic castle ? I have been there twice, in 1997, and to the Walpole Bicentenary ...
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