|
Resources
and Overviews, Course
Syllabi, Essays
and Reviews, and research aids for the student and scholar of the Gothic
Novel:
Resources
Literary Gothic
An excellent and large literary resource with resources and numerous Gothic
texts.( Jack Voller)
The
Gothic: Materials for Study
An extensive overview of Gothic literature including: terror and horror,
female Gothic, and Gothic Drama.
The Sickly Taper
Devoted to Gothic Bibliographies, The Sickly Taper, is brought to us by the
foremost Gothic authority Frederick Frank.
International
Gothic Association
An association for the students and scholars of Gothic Literature with a major
conference every two years. Note that the latest call for papers can be
found on this site.
Sadleir-Black
Collection of Gothic Fiction
Information on the large and extensive collection of Gothic works held at the
University of Virginia Library.
The Humanities Gateway
"Voice of the Shuttle"
Boundless literary resources including Romanticism and Gothicism. (Alan Liu)
University of California at Santa Barbara
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics is a huge web resource on literature. Among other things, it
contains short articles, biographies, synopses and feature essays.
Rewlach Gallery
While the Rewlach Gallery is not very Gothic, it does feature my wife's
(occasionally somewhat Gothic) oil paintings, so please take a few minutes and
look through the gallery.
Eighteenth Century
Gothic
18th-Century Gothic
Fragments
Links to Gothic Fragments from Anna Letitia Barbauld, Mary Hays and Harriet
Lee.
Graveyard Poetry
This site examines the influence of Graveyard Poetry on the rise of the
Gothic. Various graveyard poets are represented among which are William Cowper,
Thomas Gray, Edward Young and Robert Blair.
18th
Century Web Page; or Virtue Rewarded
This site has various pages related to 18th Century and Gothic Literature
including William Cowper, Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Smith and John Gay.
The
Sublime: Overview
Presents brief discussions of some important early theorists of the sublime.
(Victorian Web) Brown University
The Beckford Project
Dedicated to William Beckford (1760-1844), the English novelist, bibliophile, traveler, collector, and builder.
The Corvey Project
The Corvey Project at Sheffield Hallam University provides a full and accurate
depiction of women's literary production between 1790 and 1840.
The Corvey Project -
Cardiff
Cardiff Corvey is an online periodical based in the Centre for Editorial and
Intertextual Research (CEIR), itself part of the School of English,
Communication and Philosophy. Our Update pages serve as a source of editorial
content, as well as providing the latest information regarding the Cardiff
Corvey Project. Cardiff University, Wales.
British Women
Playwrights Around 1800
The playwrights around the 1800s project offers texts of plays unavailable to
most libraries as well as essays and links. Brought to us by Thomas Crochunis
and Michael Laplace-Sinatra
Nineteenth Century
Gothic
Gothic
Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read
A survey of Romantic poets regarding their acquaintance with Gothic
literature, documenting this important aspect of Romantic influence and
intertextuality with primary and secondary sources. (Doug Thomson) Georgia
Southern
The Ghost
Stories of M. R. James
An introduction and many of the stories that M. R. James a master terror
novelist.
My Hideous Progeny: Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein
On this site, you will find everything you have ever wanted to know about Mary
Shelley. There are pages dealing with Mary's life, her family, her friends and
her novels. A large section of this web site is specifically devoted to her
most famous novel Frankenstein, offering a summary, a title explanation,
character descriptions and information about the genre of Gothic literature.
The text of Frankenstein is available in a fully annotated HTML format.
Vampiri
Europeana, or, A Bibliography of Non-English European Resources on Vampires in
Literature, Folklore, & Popular Culture
Vampiri Europeana is intended as a resource for scholars and others interested
in the vampire motif in the fields of literature, folklore and popular
culture. While several bibliographies of English texts are available, few have
been published regarding non-English texts, and in particular, none are
directed to the English-speaking researcher. Maintained by Melanie Hayes.
Edgar Allan Poe's -
Literary Neighborhood
Graham's Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book in the 1840's. By W. Leigh Branson.
The 19th
Century London Stage: An Exploration
An exploration into the stage and melodramas that dominated the 19th Century.
This site provides information on the time period, actors and plays. Presented
by The University of Washington
Women of the Romantic Period
This interactive hypertext uses Richard Polwhele's poem "The Unsex'd
Females" to introduce students and scholars alike to some of the British
Romantic Period's foremost female contributors. Since Polwhele addresses these
women by name, the poem provides a means of examining closely some of the many
female figures often excluded from the traditional British Romantic Period
canon.
Mary Shelley and
Frankenstein
Information on Mary Shelley, her husband the poet, her mother Mary
Wollstonecraft and the literary sources of Frankenstein.
Edgar Allan Poe
page
This site provides a biographical introduction to Edgar Allan Poe and large
selection of his e-texts.
Ann
Radcliffe Poems
A electronic edition of Ann Radcliffe's poems published in 1816. ( Michael
Gamer.) UPENN
Bram Stoker's Dracula Home Page
(Elizabeth Miller)
The Varney the
Vampyre
Online text of classic Gothic novel.
The University of
Virginia Text Archive
An extensive collection of e-texts from the University of Virginia.
Romanticism on the Net
An electronic Romantic periodical which occasionally focuses on the Gothic
from Oxford University.
Women writers from
1777-1818.
A reading list of Women writers which include a large selection of Gothic
authors. (Catherine Decker)
Jane
Austen
A site which provides biographical information on Jane Austen and her work
from the University of Texas.
Lord Byron
This site has links to Bryon's texts and some biographical information from
the University of Indiana.
Resources
for the study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
This site, maintained by Georgetown University, provides links and information
on the various Mary Shelley and Frankenstein resources on the web.
Romantic-Era Women
Writers Page
A survey of Romantic women writers. This site provides some links to women
writers including some Gothic authors and is maintained by Adriana Cracuin.
Gaslight
Electronic Text and Discussion Site
Gaslight is an Internet discussion list which reviews one story a week from
the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919.
Modern Gothic
Pandora Station
The Official Website for Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Christa Faust
The Bas Noir of Contemporary Dark Fiction
The modern Gothic novelist's lair.
Anne Rice
Biographical information and great links to all that is Anne Rice and her
Gothic world.
Poppy Z. Brite
The Gothic works of Poppy Z. Brite.
The Literature
of the Fantastic
A collection of supernatural e-texts.
Dark Side of the Web
Gothic Literature, music and experience.
Course
Syllabi
Techno-Gothic
Professor William Warner, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gothic Literature
1760 - 1820
DR. Laura Runge, University of South Florida
Gothic Fiction: Its
Children of the Night
Dr. Peter Morgan, State University of West Georgia
Gothic and Fantastic Narrative Fiction
in Spanish
Gabriela Pozzi, Grand Valley State University
The
Rhetoric of the Gothic
University of Texas, Gregroy Chaplin
Gothicism
and Romanticism
University of Pennsylvania, Michael Gamer
Sex,
Violence, Law, and the Gothic
University of Pennsylvania, Michael Gamer
England's
Ruins: Inventing British Literature, 1700-1900
University of Pennsylvania, Michael Gamer
Women,
Law, and the Gothic
University of Pennsylvania, Michael Gamer
The Gothic: Theory and
Practice
Centre College, Maryanne Ward
Dark
Romanticism: The Gothic (UG)
Marquette University, Diane Long Hoeveler
Female
Gothic (UG)
Marquette University, Diane Long Hoeveler
Gothic
Fiction (UG)
Marquette University, Diane Long Hoeveler
Gothic
Fiction and Drama (UG)
Marquette University, Diane Long Hoeveler
Studies in
Romanticism: Gothic
Adriana Craciun
English
201: Gothic and Horror Literature
Centenary College of Louisiana, Bryan Alexander
IDST 2305.02:
The Gothic Imagination
Georgia College and State University, Robert Viau
The Gothic Novel
(1996)
University of Sunderland, Dr. John Strachan
Essays
Edgar Allan Poe: The
Imp of the Perverse
(DMETRI KAKMI)
Matthew Lewis's
Supernatural Dramas
This study examines the much maligned the supernatural dramas of Matthew
Gregory Lewis--most notably The Castle Spectre, Adelmorn, the Outlaw,
and The Wood-Daemon within their web of social, cultural and historical
contexts.
Copyright 2003 by ZITTAW PRESS All Rights
Reserved.
For any questions or comments contact iamudolpho@aol.com
|