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The Literature of Gothic Fiction
- 1. The Literature of Ghouls and Ghosts: A History of the Gothic @RomGothSam #romancingthegothic
- 2. What do we mean by the Gothic?
- 3. What do we mean by the Gothic?
- 4. What do we mean by the Gothic?
- 5. What do we mean by the Gothic?
- 6. What do we mean by the Gothic?
- 9. What do we mean by the Gothic? A literature of Spooks and Spectres? A Literature of Uncertainty A literature of Fear and Terror Between Fear and Desire A literature of Nightmares An Oneiric Mode Defined by themes Claustrophobia and Confinement Inheritance The Tyranny of the Past Threat The Liminal Transgression Defined by aesthetic The uncanny The sublime
- 10. Gothic Beginnings Found manuscript A returning past you can’t escape Comic servants A Catholic setting Heroines in peril A theological critique Supernatural Mediterranean Setting
- 11. Defining the Gothic ‘It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was imagination and improbability; in the latter, nature is always intended to be copied with success.’
- 12. The Next Stages
- 13. Terror Gothic Virtuous HeroinesRuined Castles Sublime landscapes Weeble heroes (Attractive) villains Superstitious servants Happy ending Travel Tunnels Religious institutions
- 14. Terror Gothic – Case Studies
- 15. Terror Gothic – Case Studies Eleanor Sleath – Orphan of the Rhine - 1798 • A multitude of stories: Julie, Laurette, Enrico, La Roque, Adela (local abbess), Father Benedict, Andrea, the Goatherd’s daughter, Sister Cecilia, Signora d’Orfo, Marchese • Mysterious monks, betrayal, seduction, kidnap, mistaken murder (oops, wrong lady), murder most foul (the deliberate kind), fake marriage (or is it!?), mystery orphans, forest assassins, and much, much more… • A Catholic Gothic?
- 16. Terror Gothic – Case Studies T. J. Horsley-Curties – Ethelwina – 1799 14th Century - Wales Ethelwina (unsual female inheritance) Arthur Augustine Emma Leopold, Lord de St. Iver Agatha and Ruthmer vs. Bertram and Rupert A very real ghost
- 17. Horror GothicCorrupt Monks Demonic contracts Imprisoned nuns Rape Devils Rotting babies Matricide Undead nuns Immortal wanderers Sex-changing demons
- 18. The Horror Gothic Top 5 Tropes 5. Inquisitional torture 4. Monastic Depravity 3. Necromancy and Ghosts 2. Secret Societies and Robber Bands 1. Demonic pacts
- 19. The Horror Gothic 1796 1796 1810 1810 1820
- 20. The German Influence Sturm und Drang Translations and Adaptations
- 21. Publishing Gothics The Minerva Press • Minerva Press – approx.: 1790 -1820 • William Lane • Circulating Library • A stable of regular authors: Regina Marie Roche, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, Elizabeth Meeke... • Many anonymous authors Chapbooks
- 22. Gothic Drama Gothic Adaptations James Boaden – Fountainville Forest - 1794 Original Works
- 23. The Path Less Travelled William Beckford – Vathek - 1782 Mary Wollstonecraft – Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman - 1798
- 24. Maria, or, The Wrongs of Woman ABODES OF HORROR have frequently been described, and castles, filled with spectres and chimeras, conjured up by the magic spell of genius to harrow the soul, and absorb the wondering mind. But, formed of such stuff as dreams are made of, what were they to the mansion of despair, in one corner of which Maria sat, endeavouring to recall her scattered thoughts!
- 25. The Path Less Travelled The Philosophical Gothic 1794 1799 1817 The Gothic of Theological Perversion 1798 1824
- 26. Gothic Parody Uncovering a Gothic world Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey - 1817 Mocking a Gothic World Thomas Love Peacock – Nightmare Abbey - 1818
- 27. Endings and New Beginnings The Vampire Rises! Gothic Science Fiction
- 28. Hardly the End of the Story
- 29. Question Break Walk into the night and leave your uncertainty behind…
- 30. Romancing the Gothic The Dark Heroes of the Moors • The heroines of the Gothic – from surviving an encounter with the darkness to taming it or claiming it
- 31. Romancing the Gothic The Dark Heroes of the Moors • Gothic Dark Heroes – From Gothic Villain to Byronic Anti-Hero to Dark Hero
- 32. Romancing the Gothic Out on the wily windy Moors A horror come home vs. The othered North vs. The freedom of the wilds
- 33. A horror come home Robert Louis Stevenson - The Curious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - 1886 Henry James – The Turn of the Screw - 1898
- 34. The Golden Age of the Ghost Story A Christmas Tradition "A sad tale's best for winter. I have one / of sprites and goblins.“ The Winter’s Tale - 1611 Dickens and the Christmas Ghost Tradition 1843 – A Christmas Carol 1844 – The Chimes 1845 – The Cricket on the Hearth 1846 – The Battle of Life: A Love Story 1848 – The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
- 35. The Golden Age of the Ghost Story Edgar Allan Poe The Gothic Fantastic
- 36. The Golden Age of the Ghost Story • Spiritualism • Life after Death • Theological Enquiry • A returning Past • Encoded Meaning • Invasion of the Home • A Haunting Technology • An inescapable fate • The limits of knowledge… • Elizabeth Gaskell • Margaret Oliphant • Bulwer Lytton • Vernon Lee • Elizabeth Bowen • M. R. James • Margaret Bowen • Sheridan Le Fanu • E. Nesbit • Edith Wharton….
- 37. Penny Dreadfuls • Cheap weekly story papers • Starting in the 1830s • 1 penny per issue 667, 000 words
- 38. Criminal Sensation Life Imitates Art? 1840 – The Murder of Lord William Russell by François Benjamin Courvoisier 1834 1839
- 40. Detective Fiction Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue – 1841 The first modern detective story Between horror and the detective tale Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles – 1901-2 The Gothic detective tale The detective of the explained supernatural
- 41. Decadent Gothic • Excess • Artificiality • Fear of the collapse of Empire • Atavism • Technologies on the border of a new world • Madness, psychology and psychopathy Imperial Gothic Defining England against ‘the Orient’ – barbaric, mysterious, irrational, dangerous, tantalising…
- 42. Decadent Gothic Dangerous Doubles Vampires are Back!
- 43. Question Break You can’t escape so… you might as well ask a question!
- 44. Weird Fiction The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space. (‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’ – H. P. Lovecraft)
- 45. Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror • Blurring the boundaries between fantasy, science fiction and horror… 1930 in Weird Tales 1890 in The Whirlwind 1907
- 46. Women’s Weird • Evil saucepans • Proliferating Gloves • Nightmare Wisteria • Seeking shadows • Prehistoric men • Vengeful feather boas • Disembodied hands • Reimagined hell • Demonic Books
- 47. Rewriting the Brontes Reimagining the dark heart Giving voice to the Othered
- 48. The Paranoid Woman’s Film
- 49. Somebody’s Trying to Kill Me and I Think it’s my Husband… The rise of the Gothics Is there really a Gothic recipe?
- 50. Tracing the Gothic RomanceThe Austenesque Gothic The Working Woman’s Romance
- 51. Where do we go from here?Queering the Gothic Romance Onwards to the Paranormal Romance
- 52. From Gothic to Horror
- 54. From Video Games, to Podcasts, to Parody, to Pastiche, to Reinvention, to tourism…The Gothic lives on
- 55. Question Break Come enter the wilderness of doubt with me!
- 56. Bibliography Primary Texts Anon. – The Veiled Picture - 1802 Anon. – Almagro and Claude – 1805 William Harrison Ainsworth – Rookwood – 1834 William Harrison Ainsworth – The History of Jack Sheppard - 1839 Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey - 1817 James Boaden – Fountainville Forest – 1794 Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Lady Audley’s Secret - 1862 Charles Brockden Brown – Wieland, or, The Transformation – 1798 Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre – 1847 Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights - 1847 Gottfried August Burger – Lenore – 1773 Susan Claudia – Madness in the Castle -1971
- 57. Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone - 1868 Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White – 1859-60 T. J. Horsley- Curties – Ethelwina, Or, The House of Fitz-Aubert – 1799 Charlotte Dacre – Zofloya, or, The Moor – 1810 Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol – 1843 Charles Dickens – The Chimes - 1844 Charles Dickens – The Cricket on the Hearth - 1845 Charles Dickens – The Battle of Life: A Love Story - 1846 Charles Dickens - The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain – 1848 Ed. Melissa Edmundson – Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890 – 1940 - 2019 Sheridan Le Fanu – Carmilla – 1872 Hilary Ford – A Bride for Bedivere – 1976 Christine Marion Fraser – The Noble Series – 1994-7 William Godwin – Caleb Williams – 1794 William Godwin – St Leon – 1799 William Godwin – Mandeville - 1817
- 58. Carl Grosse – Horrid Mysteries – 1796 H. Rider Haggard – She – 1887 Georgette Heyer – The Quiet Gentleman - 1951 E. T. A. Hoffman – ‘The Sandman’ - 1816 James Hogg – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – 1824 Victoria Holt – The Mistress of Mellyn – 1960 Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone – The Vault of the Vampire - 1989 Henry James – The Turn of the Screw - 1898 Karl Frierich Kahlert – The Necromancer, or, The Tale of the Black Forest – 1794 Cecilia Lane – Stolen Mate - 2018 Sophia Lee – The Recess, Or, A Tale of Other Times – 1775 Matthew Lewis – The Monk – 1796 Matthew Lewis – Venoni, Or, The Novice of St Marks – 1809 H. P. Lovecraft – ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’ - 1927 H. P. Lovecraft – ‘The Whisperer in Darkness’ – 1930 Arthur Machen – ‘The Great God Pan’ - 1890 Richard Marsh – The Beetle - 1897
- 59. Charles Robert Maturin – Bertram - 1816 Charles Robert Maturin – Melmoth the Wanderer – 1820 Guy de Maupassant – ‘The Horla’ – 1887 Barbara Michaels – The Master of Blacktower – 1966 Jeannette Ng – Under the Pendulum Sun - 2017 Vladimir Odevski – The Sylph - 1837 Thomas Love Peacock – Nightmare Abbey – 1818 Edgar Allan Poe – The Fall of the House of Usher’ – 1839 Edgar Allan Poe – ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ - 1842 Edgar Allan Poe – ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ - 1843 John William Polidori – ‘The Vampyre’ - 1819 Ann Radcliffe – The Romance of the Forest – 1792 Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho – 1794 Ann Radcliffe – The Italian - 1796 Clara Reeve – The Old English Baron – 1778 George Reynolds – The Mysteries of London – 1844 George Reynolds – Wagner the Werewolf – 1847
- 60. Jean Rhys – The Wide Sargasso Sea - 1966 Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire - 1976 Marilyn Ross – The Phantom and Barnabas Collins - 1969 James Malcolm Rymer – The String of Pearls – 1846-7 James Malcolm Rymer – Varney the Vampire – 1845-7 Friedrich Schiller – The Robbers – 1781 Percy Shelley – Zastrozzi - 1810 Eleanor Sleath – The Orphan of the Rhine – 1798 Robert Louis Stevenson – The Curious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – 1886 Bram Stoker – Dracula – 1897 Vincent Virga – Gaywyck - 1969 Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto – 1764 Horace Walpole – The Mysterious Mother – 1796 J. R. R. Ward – Dark Lover - 2005 Phyllis Whitney – The Trembling Hills - 1956 Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1890
- 61. Bibliography Secondary Texts Fred Botting – Gothic – 1995 E. J. Clery – The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762 – 1800 – 1995 Joseph Crawford – The Twilight of the Gothic – 2014 Carol Margaret Davison – Gothic Literature 1764 – 1824 – 2009 William Patrick Day – In the Circles of Fear and Desire – 1985 Robert Doran – The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant – 2015 Markman Ellis – The History of Gothic Fiction – 2000 Robert Geary – The Supernatural in Gothic Fiction: Horror, Belief and Literary Change – 1992 Jacqueline Howard – Reading Gothic Fiction – 1994 Maggie Kilgour – The Rise of the Gothic Novel – 1995 Joel Porte – ‘In the Hands of an Angry God’ in The Gothic Imagination – 1974 David Punter and Glennis Byron – The Gothic – 2004 Eino Railo – The Haunted Castle – 1927 Patricia Meyer Spacks – The Insistence of Horror - 1962
- 62. Film Bibliography Francis Ford Coppola – Bram Stoker’s Dracula – 1992 William Friedkin – The Exorcist – 1973 Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho – 1960 Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca - 1940 Tobe Hooper – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – 1974 Sam Raimi – Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness - 1992 George A. Romero – Dawn of the Dead - 1978 Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water - 2017 Guillermo del Toro – Crimson Peak - 2015
- 64. Ethelwina ‘Long have I struggled against the transports of my heart – vainly have I tried to subdue its ardent sensations; for, alas! Was it for the poor, dishonoured Augustine, without a name, a fortune, and unknown – his future life stained by a mistaken, but beloved parent’s misjudging actions – was it for him to aspire to Ethelwina?’