41. The Gothic of Non-Gothic Writers in

the Nineteenth Century

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

CERVO, Nathan A. “Arnold’s ‘Alaric at Rome’ and ‘The Future’: The Gothic Face of Zeitgeist and Modernism.” [GGII: 1384].  

 Robert Browning (1812-1889)

ACKERMAN, Michael. “Monstrous Men: Violence and Masculinity in Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book” (122-134). In Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature, ed. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

BEETZ, Kirk H. “Three Themes in Browning’s Gothic Satire ‘Mesmerism.’” [GGII: 1379].

BURDUCK, Michael L. “Browning’s Use of Vampirism in ‘Porphyria’s Lover.’” [GGII: 1383] 

CARVER, Mildred (Remy). “Gothic Traits in Robert Browning’s Shorter Poems.” Master’s Thesis, University of Texas at Austin , 1942.

THOMPSON, Leslie M. “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ and the Gothic Tradition.” [GGI: 2152] 

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

DESAULNIERS, Mary. “Carlyle and the Economics of Terror: A Study of Revisionary Gothicism in The French Revolution.” [GGII: 1386]

DESAULNIERS, Mary. Carlyle and the Economics of Terror; A Study of Revisionary Gothicism in the French Revolution. Buffalo : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995.

Marie Corelli (0000-0000)

HARTNELL, Elaine M. “Morals and Metaphysics: Marie Corelli, Religion and The Gothic.” Women's Writing 13 (2006): 284-303.

                                                                  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

BLOOM, Clive. “Doyle, Arthur Conan” (pp. 47-49).  In The Handbook of Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

CLAUSSEN, Nils. “Degeneration, Fin de Siècle Gothic, and the Science of Detection: Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Emergence of the Modern Detective Story.“ Journal of Narrative Theory 35 (2005): 60-87.

CLAUSSEN, Nils. “The Case of the Anomalous Narrative: Gothic 'Surmise' and Trigometric 'Proof' in Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Musgrave Ritual.'” Victorian Newsletter 107 (2005): 5-10.

HAINING, Peter. “Introduction” (pp. 9-11). To The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York : Gramercy Books, 1987 .

HALL, Jasmine Yong. “Ordering the Sensational: Sherlock Holmes and the Female Gothic.” [GGII: 0792].

STABLEFORD, Brian. “DOYLE, (Sir) Arthur Co-nan” (pp. 191-95). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit, New York, Toronto and London: St. James Press, 1998.

WYNNE, Catherine. The Colonial Conan Doyle: British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism, and the Gothic. Westport . CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)

AUERBACH, Nina. “The Power of Hunger: Demon-ism and Maggie Tulliver.” [GGI: 2156].

KNOEPFLMACHER, U.C. “‘Private Allegory’: The Unveiling of Horror.” In George Eliot’s Early Novels: The Limits of Realism. [GGI: 2147].

SENF, Carol Ann. “The Vampire in Middlemarch and George Eliot’s Quest for Historical Reality.” [GGII: 1427].

VANN, Joretta Joyce. “Ghosts upon the Daylight: Fantasy and Realism in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” [GG-II: 1402].

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925 )

HELLER, Tamar. “The Unbearable Hybridity of Female Sexuality: Racial Ambiguity in the Gothic in Rider Haggard's She” (55-66). In Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature, ed. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

PEARSON, Richard. “Archeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality Beyond the Grave in H. Rider Haggard’s Ancient Egypt” (pp. 218-44). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave, 2000 .

SMITH, Andrew. “Beyond Colonialism: Death and the Body in H. Rider Haggard” (pp. 103-17). In Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, eds. Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK : Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002.

WESTERWEEL, Bart. “‘An Immense Snake Uncoiled’: H. Rider Haggard’s Heart of Darkness and Imperial Gothic” (pp. 255-70). In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, eds. Valeria Tinkler Viviani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1995.

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)

SWEET, Nanora. “Felicia Hemans’ ‘A Tale of the Secret Tribunal Gothic Empire in the Age of Jeremy Bentham and Walter Scott.” European Journal of English Studies 6 (2002): 159-71 .

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

WATT, R.J.C. “Hopkins and the Gothic Body” (pp. 60-69). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2000: 60-89. 

 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

MOREY, Peter. “Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling’s Indian Fiction” (pp. 201-17). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave, 2000.

SMITH, Elton M. “Kipling’s Key to the Haunted Chamber” (pp. 89-100). In The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature, eds. Elton M. Smith and Robin Haas. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1999 .

Anne Lister (1791-1840)

ROWANCHILD, Anira. “‘Everything Done for Effect’: Georgic, Gothic, and Picturesque in Anne Lister’s Self-Production.” Women’s Writing 7:1 (2000): 89-104.

                                                                    George MacDonald (1824-1905)

 MCLAREN, Scott. "Saving the Monsters? Images of Redemption in the Gothic Tales of George MacDonald." Christianity and Literature 55:2 (2006): 245-69.

Florence Marryat (1818-1899)

DAVIS, Octavia. "Morbid Mothers: Gothic Heredity in Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire" (40-54). In Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature, ed. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

D’AMICO, Diane. “Christina Rossetti: The Maturin Poems.” [GGI: 2144].

MORRILL, David F. “‘Twilight is Not Good for Maidens’: Uncle Polidori and the Psychodynamics of Vampirism in Goblin Market.” [GGII: 1393].

MORRISON, Ronald D. “‘Their Fruits Like Honey in the Throat/But Poison in the Blood’: Christina Rossetti and The Vampyre.” Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal 14:2 (1997): 86-96.

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

DAVENPORT, Hester. “‘A Gothic Ruin and a Grecian House’: Tennyson’s The Princess and Mid-Victorian Architectural Theory.” [GGII: 1385].

SMITH, Elton S. “Winged Ghosts: Alfred Lord Tennyson and the Return to the Mystical” (pp. 1-9). In The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature, eds. Elton S. Smith and Robin Haas. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1999.

James Thomson (1834-1882)

SEED, David. “Hell Is a City: Symbolic Systems and Epistemological Scepticism in The City of Dreadful Night” (pp. 88-107). In Spectral Readings : Towards a Gothic Geography, eds. Glennis Byron, David Punter. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

BURY, Laurent. “Trollopian Gothic.“ Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens: Revue du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Victoriennes et Edouardiennes de l'Universite Paul Valery 58 (2003): 35-45.

 UNSIGNED. “Trollope on The Monk.” [GGI: 598].

Frances Trollope (0000-0000)

GRIFFIN, Susan M. “Revising the Popish Plot: Frances Trollope's The Abbess and Father Eustace.“ Victorian Literature and Culture 31 (2003): 279-93.