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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure.
Gothic storytelling, with its sinister atmosphere of conspiracy and other hallmarks, offers a way to reframe the Kennedy family lore.
A UK university has attached a trigger warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its centre.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about morality and responsibility. Do the best of us have a repressed bad side, just waiting to get out?
A story about male violence and a damsel in distress, it is based on a true crime
The latest version of the Gothic vampire chiller is brought to you with the trademark humour of writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Ever since Dracula was born in the late 19th century, every age gets the vampire it deserves.
Gothic texts are not all bloodsucking vampires and howling werewolves. An Australian Gothic tradition took root alongside colonisation, influencing writers from Marcus Clarke to Alexis Wright.
Written in the same house party as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Polidori’s creature was based on the “mad, bad and dangerous to know” Lord Byron.
Failure to deal with the wounds of the conflict has permeated society and culture in Spain.
By refusing to idealise or victimise the women in Wuthering Heights, Brontë reveals herself as an early feminist.
Gothic fiction has become the ideal genre for exploring the grotesque, frightening aspects of coming of age. And disruptive girls with supernatural powers have replaced the passive heroines of old.
Horror loves evil twins and doubles because of concepts like the uncanny and otherness. They also provide memorable images for movie makers.
Most child sex abuse happens within families, but we still cling on to the Victorian idea of paedophiles as outsiders.
Written by a teenager, Frankenstein is an extraordinary novel that still endures 200 years after its first publication.
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Reader in English Literature and Film, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor of Research, University of Hertfordshire
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Reader in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, University of Dundee
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Research Fellow, ‘Catalysing Neurohumanities research into Child Sexual Abuse’, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of 19th Century Literature and Culture, King's College London
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Southern Cross University
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Lecturer in Victorian literature, School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of English and Irish Literature concentration coordinator, University of Connecticut
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Professor Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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