In the decades that followed Horace Walpole’s pioneer novel of the new Gothic genre, Gothic literature would prove unruly in its evolution and would veer towards a markedly audible experience in the works of Radcliffe, Lewis and Maturin during the last decade of the eighteenth century. While these novelists honored Walpole’s thematic requisites of murder, transgression and abundant architectural entrapments (castles, abbeys, and cloisters) – these authors supplemented the visual experience with a fresh, previously unexplored ingredient: sound. What seems to emerge from these texts is a sort of Gothic soundtrack whose noise, music and voice is capable of triggering panic and ushering in greater unpredictability. While Gothicism had already e...
This thesis examines how conceptions of the voice in literature that emerged over the Victorian peri...
Sounds of Terror explores the interrelations between discourses of sound and the ghostly in Victori...
In this ground-breaking study Francesca Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteent...
In the decades that followed Horace Walpole’s pioneer novel of the new Gothic genre, Gothic literatu...
Many studies of the Gothic Romance have argued for the importance of sight and obscurity to its aest...
In the eerie world of Gothic literature, sound represents a source of fear, anxiety, and discomfort,...
When George Du Maurier’s infamous mesmerist Svengali performs on his elastic penny whistle, the inst...
In a music-aesthetic approach to Gothic based on Hans Gumbrecht’s notion of atmosphere and Jean-Fran...
Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) employ the classic gothic trope of the decadent (if dilapid...
The establishment of the Gothic as one of the more multifaceted movements in our literary history is...
First paragraph: '... you shall rise rattling in your chains, and rustling from your straw, to greet...
This dissertation registers the attempts of modern novelists to make the printed word resound, to ma...
Gothic horror centers its focus on tragedy, death and romance. Thought of as a genre unto itself, a ...
Scholarly studies have established that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century English novel mixed co...
Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 by Diane Long Hoeveler p...
This thesis examines how conceptions of the voice in literature that emerged over the Victorian peri...
Sounds of Terror explores the interrelations between discourses of sound and the ghostly in Victori...
In this ground-breaking study Francesca Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteent...
In the decades that followed Horace Walpole’s pioneer novel of the new Gothic genre, Gothic literatu...
Many studies of the Gothic Romance have argued for the importance of sight and obscurity to its aest...
In the eerie world of Gothic literature, sound represents a source of fear, anxiety, and discomfort,...
When George Du Maurier’s infamous mesmerist Svengali performs on his elastic penny whistle, the inst...
In a music-aesthetic approach to Gothic based on Hans Gumbrecht’s notion of atmosphere and Jean-Fran...
Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) employ the classic gothic trope of the decadent (if dilapid...
The establishment of the Gothic as one of the more multifaceted movements in our literary history is...
First paragraph: '... you shall rise rattling in your chains, and rustling from your straw, to greet...
This dissertation registers the attempts of modern novelists to make the printed word resound, to ma...
Gothic horror centers its focus on tragedy, death and romance. Thought of as a genre unto itself, a ...
Scholarly studies have established that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century English novel mixed co...
Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 by Diane Long Hoeveler p...
This thesis examines how conceptions of the voice in literature that emerged over the Victorian peri...
Sounds of Terror explores the interrelations between discourses of sound and the ghostly in Victori...
In this ground-breaking study Francesca Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteent...