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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
Drawing on American Indian myths and folklore that previous scholarship has placed into direct relationship to the Anglo-European vampire narrative, and on recent U.S. mainstream commodifications of these myths, my paper ...
Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
Against the backdrops of Terry Gifford’s post-pastoral and Fred Botting’s Gothic understanding of the literary corpse as “negative[ly] sublime,” this essay explores the fictional dead as matter unfettered by genre, ...
Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
For years Supernatural (CW, 2005–) has gained the status of a cult series as well as one of the most passionate and devoted fandoms that has ever emerged. Even though the main concept of the series indicates that Supernatural ...
The Tell-Tale Hand: Gothic Narratives and the Brain
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
The opening story in Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson is called simply “Hands.” It is about a teacher’s remarkable hands that sometimes seem to move independently of his will. This essay explores some of the ...