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"On the very brink of a precipice": Landscapes of the Mind in Wilkie Collins’s Basil (1852)
Published 2008-05-01Subjects: Get full text
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Certain Death: Mike Flanagan’s Gothic Antidote to Traumatic Memory and Other Enlightenment Hang-Overs in <i>Doctor Sleep</i>
Published 2025-01-01Subjects: “…eighteenth-century English Gothic novel…”
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Women Reprimanding Women: The Gothic Parody and its Social Criticism
Published 2024-09-01“…In the late eighteenth century, the Gothic parody, ridiculing the generic traits of the Gothic novel, often directed their humor at the parody heroine. …”
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The Wandering Jew as Monster: John Blackburn’s <i>Devil Daddy</i>
Published 2025-01-01“…In the medieval and early modern sources of the legend, the Wandering Jew, who once sinned against Christ and is therefore doomed to be an immortal eyewitness to the Passion, serves as a model for the faithful. In his 1796 gothic novel, <i>The Monk</i>, Matthew Lewis creates a new strand of the Wandering Jew tradition, a gothic Wandering Jew, a being transformed from wonder to horror through association with centuries of antisemitic accusations against Jews as agents of conspiracy, ritual murder, nefarious magic, and disease. …”
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« There are kisses for all » : Le defilé des jeunes hommes
Published 2006-12-01“…However, the film director chose to claim his film adaptation as the most faithful rendition on screen of the famous gothic novel. Everyone knows fidelity is not the most appropriate word when one deals with this film, owing to the essential addition made by the screenwriter James V. …”
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La nuit entre histoire et littérature
Published 2020-07-01“…But the comparative approach to night between France and England not only reveals different sensibilities, but also shows that night was an original creative wellspring that spread, among a broad Western European public, its terrifying models of night, conveyed no less by Elizabethan theatre than by tomb poetry or gothic novels.…”
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La Montagne et la Manière Noire
Published 2008-05-01“…Graphic arts are not the only arts based on images: fiction (Gothic novels in particular) uses images which arouse comparable emotions. …”
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