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The Privilege to Write What You Want
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014)
Haunting Transcendentalist Landscapes: EcoGothic Politics in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
In this essay, the reminiscences of Margaret Fuller, feminist activist and member of the American Transcendentalist movement, from her journey to the Great Lakes region, entitled Summer on the Lakes (1844), are considered ...
Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation ...
The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions ...
Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. ...
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Guillotine, and Modern Ontological Anxiety
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
Lacefield’s interdisciplinary analysis analyzes motifs of decapitation/dismemberment in Frankenstein and then moves into a discussion of the novel’s exploration of the ontological categories specified above. For example, ...
Gothic Trouble: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Globalized Order
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
The article explores the way American author Cormac McCarthy uses the Gothic genre in his novel The Road as a means to address what has been called “our globalized order,” in particular the way it has turned human beings ...
Timeless Radcliffe: A Review of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu ŁódzkiegoCambridge UP, 2016-11-23)
In the Flesh and the Gothic Pharmacology of Everyday Life; or Into and Out of the Gothic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
One of the key questions facing Gothic Studies today is that of its migration into and out of its once familiar generic or symbolic modes of representation. The BBC series In the Flesh addresses these concerns against the ...
“It’s not just a dream. There is a storm coming!”: Financial Crisis, Masculine Anxieties and Vulnerable Homes in American Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
Despite the Gothic’s much-discussed resurgence in mainstream American culture, the role the late 2000s financial crisis played in sustaining this renaissance has garnered insufficient critical attention. This article finds ...