I am reading Radcliffe at the moment, and just going through some old mails on the subject. Perhaps this is of interest for you: Gothic Literature Read by the...
Thank you for mentioning: Mario Praz, "The Romantic Agony". I have now ordered the book; I did not know Mario Praz. As I have been writing about before, so...
Monica. Just found this, looking for something else. Try this, lots of source of critical essays : http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/PI/index.jhtml A...
Mario Praz's Romantic Agony is one of the best books out there. He stirred up a passion for Romanticism in me by hitting all the right spots. A warning,...
I am a Masters Candidate currently taking a course in American Gothic Women Writers, with an amazing course reading list that has convinced me to do my Masters...
I've read something interesting today that might be relevant somehow...possibly...? Marek Kohn (find him on Yahoo) has written an article about the origins of...
elizabeth leedham
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... I liked NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS, but not as much as I liked some of her other books. My personal favourite is THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DOCTOR HOFFMAN,...
Has anyone heard of a somewhat gothic/domestic novel writer named Christine Faber (1849-1918)? I came across a book of hers through my professor, and she was...
Thanks for the suggestions, I will check them out. I havent read Nights at the Circus, but Ive read Frankenstein and do love that novel also. I'll check out...
Pardon the late reply, but have you gone through Terry Castle's The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Female Uncanny? It...
Wow, the Castle book looks really useful....and my University Library has a copy far away, so I've ordered it. Many thanks! Our Silly-Bus Gothic Women Course...
Not a "Gothic" source, but E. F. Bleiler lists these women [ghost story] writers not on your list: Mary E. Braddon Rhoda Broughton Emma Dawson Vernon Lee ...
Alan Gullette
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The "Gothic Women" course sounds fascinating. Will it also be looking at the source of Patriarchial Oppression in the developement of Nordic Women writers in...
In good timing with the conversation on Gothic women, I need help finding a quote. I believe it is in Ellen Moers Literary Women. I believe she says...
Hi Lynda, Sounds like a fabulous course you're taking up. Are those readings on "e-reserve" available for those of us not enrolled in the course? If so, would...
No, sorry....the e-reserves arent available outside our library :) But they are all easily acquired materials. The Freud article on the Uncanny is really...
Now that Sir Devendra P. Varma's _The Gothic Flame_ is OP and with used copies going for $100+, what are your recommendations for a substitute for grad...
a substitute for Varma's _Gothic Flame_Varma's book is listed at $33.50 at Powell's in Portland, Oregon, although it's also out of stock. ... From: Prof. Lloyd...
Dear list, ... I've read at least three times that some scholars tried to stabilish a period in which gothic fiction was profilic. Walpole's "The Castle of ...
If you ever can actually buy it for 33.50, do so immediately! Meanwhile, at booksellers who *actually* have it in stock, prepare to pay $100 or more....
If I have understood your question correctly (which I'm not convinced I have) then you are looking for the names of the first scholars to examine the Gothic...
Alder, Emily
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Mar 16, 2004 5:12 am
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... You might want to take a look at some of Coleridge's literary criticism on Lewis' _The Monk_ and also I believe Sir Walter Scott contributed to defining...
Hi Emily, how are you? ... It's always hard for me to express myself in this language... But I'l try again... I'm not looking the first ones to examine the...
Cid, The recommendation that you look at Coleridge or Walter Scott for the source of this demarcation of the Gothic as roughly 1764 to 1820 is right on the...
I don't know who -- if any specific person in print -- first proposed that the core of the gothic era should be bookended as 1764-1820. It might not be that a...
Dear Cid & list, In regards to the discussion concerning the 'core' Gothic era and which critics defined the period as such, I thought I would share a link to ...