...MARC REDFIELD MARSHALL BROWN, The Gothic Text (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005), pp. 312, cloth, $48.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Gothic Consciousness MARSHALL BROWN, The Gothic Text (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005), pp. 312, cloth, $48.00. "Kant...

... secrets elided in rows of debit and credit one by one as sensational truths; to those ends, both writers invoke Gothic conventions. By dispatching the totalizing technique that had been invented by early modern merchants and finessed by realist novelists to generate faith in a stable fiduciary community...

...James D. Lilley Silyn Roberts Siân , Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2014 , pp. 239, Cloth, $59.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 For many scholars of the emerging US...

...Charlotte Sussman This essay argues that the problem of witnessing in the Romantic-era novel is caught up with the problem of moral epistemology and that both are inflected by temporality. Focusing on Charles Maturin's 1820 gothic Melmoth the Wanderer , this essay argues that, like many...

...Christopher Herbert The key principle of Victorian cultural anthropology, the doctrine of obsolescent “survivals,” had as its Gothic counterpart the implication that atavistic residues of early human stages could persist in modernity and might at any moment unexpectedly resurface. One crystallizing...

...Barry McCrea This article proposes a new account of sexuality and narrative in Bram Stoker's Dracula . It suggests that the two plot strands of the novel—the petit bourgeois narrative of Jonathan and Mina's courtship and the gothic story of Jonathan's imprisonment by Count Dracula—are two different...

.... It is not just Radcliffean gothic but narrative in general that comes under the sway of this logic during the last decade of the eighteenth century. Generalized scarcity took the place of providence and fortune in reckonings of collective prosperity and precarity (and it can still be found masquera ding...

... in Pierre , we find incest occupying an important threshold between significance and sound, between meaning and unmeaning. The first part of the essay reveals that Melville borrows from Poe a gothic “sound” that emphasizes the physical nature of language. The second part of the essay explores the history...

...SCOTT J. JUENGEL GEORGE E. HAGGERTY, Queer Gothic (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006), pp. 350, cloth, $65.00, paper, $20.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 An Odd Sexual Mood GEORGE E. HAGGERTY, Queer Gothic (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006), pp. 350, cloth...

..., 2001 . Brown , Marshall . “A Philosophical View of the Gothic Novel.” Studies in Romanticism 26 ( 1987 ): 275 –301. Cantor , Paul A. Creature and Creator. Myth-Making and English Romanticism . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984 . Castle , Terry . “The Spectralization...

... –70. Campbell , Mary Baine . The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600 . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988 . Clery , E. J. “The Genesis of ‘Gothic’ Fiction.” Hogle 21 –40. Clery , E.J. and Robert Miles, eds. Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700–1820...

... genres that never lacks for readers but that always needs friends. This contradiction propels Emily S. Davis's insightful and thought-provoking Rethinking the Romance Genre , which examines how and why the romance (and its shadow, the gothic) has been useful for postcolonial and diasporic literary...

... comes to be seen as an admittedly strong current in a much morr complex river running from Nickerson's mid- eighteenth-century female domestic-gothic tradition of detective narratives to Klein et al.'s portrayal of our own turn-of-the-twenty-first-century's explosion in figures and formats...

... and the conceptual structures available to make sense of that experience. The Extinct Scene' s fourth chapter returns to England and to World War II. And much like the second chapter's expansion of historical fiction, “Gothic War” shows how Henry Moore's subway sketches and Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover...

... . Fanon , Frantz . The Wretched of the Earth . Trans Constance Farrington. New York: Grove P, 1968 . Gaddis , William . Carpenter’s Gothic. 1985 . New York: Penguin, 1999 . Hegel , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich . Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art . Trans. T. M. Knox Vol. 1 . Oxford...

... . Metaphoricity and the Romance of Property in The Old Manor House JACQUELINE M. LABBE Charlotte Smith's 1793 novel, The Old Manor House, has been discussed variously in light of its status as romance, anti-romance, and gothic; it has been recognized as her best novel...

... relationships with his peers. Other nineteenth-century literature that draws Smith’s attention includes the senti- mental and the gothic. Seeing evidence of these two modes in discussions of the peniten- tiary and in the architecture of the prison itself, Smith articulates the connection between gothic...

... that includes Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , Henry Fielding's Tom Jones , Frances Burney's Camilla , Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels, and Austen's Emma . From its pairing of Burney's fiction and Tina Fey's sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to its epilogue, which moves from Austen to Amy Heckerling's...

... in gardening, A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening. NOVEL I SPRING/SUMMERZOO5 disavowed modes converged to form a distinctly "irrational" literature that we now recognize as the gothic. A repository of archaic and orientalized4 plots and objects, the gothic offered the childish...

...: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality In the 1790s. She is currently finishing lane A~isten'sCults and Cultures and working on Raising the Novel, from which the present essay is drawn. ROBERTMILES is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling. His books include Gothic Writing...