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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.

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