This essay will explore the image of the Gothic home in EmilyDickinson’s poetry using close readings of her poems and historicalsources. Analysis of nineteenth century Gothic texts will provide evidencethat an admiration of female Gothic authors lead Dickinson to emulatemany of the themes, motifs, and symbols they used. Their influencecombines with her preoccupation with the space of the home, apredilection reflected in her letters and her poetry. Readings of Dickinson’spoems demonstrate that the home may be seen as both a physical space(the house) and a mental space (the mind). These spaces present positivepossibilities as well as menacing confinement, a duality fundamental tothe Gothic genre. Dickinson also discusses houses in a similar ...
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This essay will explore the image of the Gothic home in Emily Dickinson’s poetry using close reading...
This thesis addresses the central role of the haunted house in mid-to-late Victorian Gothic texts. I...
This thesis is a study of the properties of place in American Gothic fiction. It assumes that the Go...
Most scholarship on the works of Emily Dickinson is synchronically bound, focusing on the meaning of...
Any consideration of the theme of ‘house and home’ leads into discussion on three different levels o...
This thesis investigates the recurrence of haunted houses in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first-...
Essay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her g...
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Dickinson wrote this enigmatic, single-sentence letter without commentary, but while she did not ela...
Beginning with T.W. Higginson, the poet’s first public critic and posthumous editor, the prevailing ...
I will be exploring William Faulkner’s use of the gothic genre to show the development of characteri...
PhD ThesisMy PhD explores the theme of the hotel in the modernist fiction of Jean Rhys, Katherine M...
My PhD explores the theme of the hotel in the modernist fiction of Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield an...
This essay examines how Mildred Haun uses Appalachian themes and settingsto bridge the melding of Go...
Flipping the Castle explores topics of domesticity in Gothic literature over the course of three ce...
This essay will explore the image of the Gothic home in Emily Dickinson’s poetry using close reading...
This thesis addresses the central role of the haunted house in mid-to-late Victorian Gothic texts. I...
This thesis is a study of the properties of place in American Gothic fiction. It assumes that the Go...
Most scholarship on the works of Emily Dickinson is synchronically bound, focusing on the meaning of...
Any consideration of the theme of ‘house and home’ leads into discussion on three different levels o...
This thesis investigates the recurrence of haunted houses in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first-...
Essay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her g...
This thesis comprises my novel Confusion together with a critical piece exploring depictions and use...
Dickinson wrote this enigmatic, single-sentence letter without commentary, but while she did not ela...
Beginning with T.W. Higginson, the poet’s first public critic and posthumous editor, the prevailing ...
I will be exploring William Faulkner’s use of the gothic genre to show the development of characteri...
PhD ThesisMy PhD explores the theme of the hotel in the modernist fiction of Jean Rhys, Katherine M...
My PhD explores the theme of the hotel in the modernist fiction of Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield an...
This essay examines how Mildred Haun uses Appalachian themes and settingsto bridge the melding of Go...
Flipping the Castle explores topics of domesticity in Gothic literature over the course of three ce...