Canadian Gothic

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General Studies

ATWOOD, Margaret. “Canadian Monsters: Some Aspects of the Supernatural in Canadian Fiction.” The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture. The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1977. 1-21. [GGI: 1289].

ATWOOD, Margaret. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford, UK and New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1995.

CARPENTIER, André. “Notes en marge d’un historique du fantastique quebecois au XIXe.” Voix e Images: Littérature Quebecois, 19:1 (1993): 104-20. [Marginal notes on the history of quebecois fantastic in the 19th century]

DAVIDSON, Arnold E. “Canadian Gothic and Anne Hébert’s Kamouraska.” Modern Fiction Studies 27 (1981): 243-254. [GGI: 1290].


EDWARDS, Justin. Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2005.

HENDERSON, Eric and Madeline SONIK, eds. Introduction. Fresh Blood: New Canadian Gothic Fiction. Winnipeg: Ravenstone, 1998. 1-9.

LENNOX, John Watt. “The Castle’s Art: Elements of the Gothic in Selected Fiction of French Canada and the American South.” Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 7123A-7124A (Universuty of New Brunswick). [GGI: 1293].

LORD, Michel. En Quete du roman gothique Quebecoise, 1837-1860: Tradition littéraire et imaginaire romanesque. [GGII: 0811].

NORTHEY, Margot. “Gothic and Grotesque Elements in Canadian Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1974): 6676A (York University). [GGI: 1296].

NORTHEY, Margot. The Haunted Wilderness: The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction. Toronto: Toronto UP, 1976. [GGI: 1297].

SZALAY, Edina. “Gothic Fantasy and Female Bildung in Four North American Women Novels.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 6 (2000): 183-96.

TURCOTTE, Gerry. “English-Canadian Gothic.” The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 49-53.

TURCOTTE, Gerry, Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2009.