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the Twentieth Century
 
Margery Allingham (1904-1966)
 
ROWLAND,  Susan. "Margery Allingham's Gothic: Genre as Cultural Criticism." Clues: A Journal of Detection 23 (2004): 27-39 .
 
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

OLSEN, Lance. “Beckett and the Horrific.” In Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama. [GGII: 0801].

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

ESTY, Jed. "Virgins of Empire: The Last September and the Antidevelopmental Plot." Modern Fiction Studies 53 (2007): 257-275.

PIPERO, Gil E. “Elizabeth Bowen’s The Demon Lover and the Female Gothic Fantasies” (pp. 168-75). In That Other World: The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature and Its Contexts, eds.  B. Stewart. Monaco: Colin Smyth, 1998.

Mona Caird (1873-1932)

ZABICKA, Agnieszka. "Female Gothic Motifs in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael." Victorian Review: The Journal of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario 31 (2005): 5-20.

J.[ames] G.[ordon] Farrell (1935-  )

SAGE, Victor. “The Ghastly and the Ghostly: The Gothic Farce of Farrell’s ‘Empire Trilogy’” (pp. 172-91). In Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, eds.  Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003.

E.M. Forster (0000-0000)

HOWARD, Douglas L. "A Return to the Caves: E.M. Forster's Gothic Passage." (pp. 120-39) in The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, eds. Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.

Nadine Gordimer (1923-  )

BAGCHI WILLIAMSON, Nivedita. “Reinscribing Genres and Representing South African Realities in Nadine Gordimer’s Later Novels (1977-1994).” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:6 (1998): 2017 (Boston University).

Susan Hill (1942-  )

QUEMA, Anne. "Family and Symbolic Violence in The Mist in the Mirror." Gothic Studies 8 (2006): 114-35.

SCULLION, Val. "Susan Hill's The Woman in Black: Gothic Horror for the 1980s." Women: A Cultural Review 14 (2003): 292-305.

SCULLION, Val. "Gothic Transformations and Musical Appropriations in Susan Hill's Novel The Bird of Night." Gothic Studies 7 (2005): 53-64.
 
                                                                 Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
 
WHALEY, Brian. “Horror and Homosexuality in Christopher Isherwood’s Mr. Norris Changes Trains” (177-187). In Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature, ed Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

W.W. Jacobs (1863-1943)

CLOY, John. “Jacobs, W.W. (1863-1943)” (pp. 139-40). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed.  Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

P.D. James (1920-  ) [Phyllis Dorothy James Whyte]

ROWLAND, Susan. “Horror of Modernity and the Utopian Sublime: Gothic Villainy in P.D. James and Ruth Rendell” (pp. 135-46). In The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film, Eds, Stacy Gillis, Philippa Gates. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Jennifer Johnston (1930-  )

FOGARTY, Anne. “Uncanny Families: Neo-Gothic Motifs and the Theme of Social Change in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.” Irish University Review 30 (2000): 59-81.

James Joyce (1882-1941)

ANSPAUGH, Kelly. “‘Three Mortal Hour[i]s’: Female Gothic in Joyce’s ‘The Dead.’” [GGII: 1368].

HANSEN, James Arthur. “Gothic Phantoms of the Modern: Gothic Histories and Materialist Criticism in Irish Modernism.” Dissertation Abstracts International 62:3 (2001): 1032 (University of NotreDame).

LOZÉS, Jean. “James Joyce dans la tradition ‘Gothique’?” Caliban 33 (1996): 127-36. [James Joyce and the Gothic Tradition] .

WALLACE, Jeff. “‘The Stern Task of Living’: Dubliners, Clerks, Money, and Modernism” (pp. 111-28). In Gothic Modernisms, eds.  Andrew Smith and Jeff Wallace. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York: Palgrave, 2001.

WURTZ, James F. “Scarce More a Corpse: Famine Memory and Representations of the Gothic in Ulysses.” Journal of Modern Literature 29 (2005): 102-17.
 

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

HUMMA, John. “D.H. Lawrence” (pp. 233-40). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds.  Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

SMITH, Andrew. “Vampirism, Masculinity, and De-generacy: D.H. Lawrence’s Modernist Gothic” (pp. 150-66). In Gothic Modernisms, eds.  Andrew Smith and Jeff Wallace. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York : Palgrave, 2001 .
 
STROUPE, John H. “Ruskin, Lawrence, and Gothic Naturalism.” Ball State University Forum 11 (1970): 3-9. Draws meaningful comparisons and contrasts between the two authors in their development of a modified Gothic style .
Doris Lessing (1919- )

ANIEVAS GAMALLO, Isabel C. “Motherhood and the Fear of the Other: Magic, Fable, and the Gothic in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child” (pp. 113-24). In Theme Parks, Rainforests, and Sprouting Wastelands: European Essays on Theory and Performance in Contemporary British Fiction, eds.  Richard Todd, Luisa Flora. Amsterdam and Atlanta : Rodopi, 2000.

Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957)

ORESTANO, Francesca. “Arctic Masks in a Castle of Ice: Gothic Vorticism and Wyndham Lewis’s Self Condemned” (pp. 167-87). In Gothic Modernisms, eds.  Andrew Smith and Jeff Wallace. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Patrick McGrath (1950- )

ANTOR. Heinz. “Unreliable Narration and (Dis)ori-entation in the Postmodern Neo-Gothic Novel: Reflections on Patrick McGrath’s The Grotesque." Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies 24 (2001): 1137; Reprinted (pp. 357-82). In Erzahlen und Erzahlentheorie im 20. Jahrhundert: Festshrift für Wilhelm Fuger, ed.  Jorg Helbig. Heidelberg, Germany: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 2001.

LEWIS, Mitchell R. “The Gothic Gaze: The Politics of Gender in Patrick McGrath’s Asylum.” Anglistik und Englischunterricht 69 (2007: 159-174.

R.[alph].H.[ale] Mottram (1883-1971)

PHILLIPS, Terry. “The Rules of War: Gothic Transgressions in First World War Fiction.” Gothic Studies 2 (2000): 232-44.

Kim Newman (1959-  )

HILLS, Matt. "Counterfictions in the Work of Kim Newman: Rewriting Gothic Science Fiction as 'Alternate-Story Stories." Science Fiction Studies 30 (2003): 436-55.

Liam O'Flaherty (0000-0000)

PHILLIPS, Terry.  "A Study in Grotesques: Transformations of the Human in the Writing of Liam  O'Flaherty."  Gothic Studies  7  (2005):  41-52.

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)

BRISTON-SMITH, Laurence. “Expandable Architecture.” [GGII: 0781].

GARDINER-SCOTT, Tanya Jane. “Mervyn Peake: The Evolution of a Dark Romantic.” [GGII: 0789].

ROME, Joy J. “Twentieth-Century Gothic: Peake’s Gormenghast.” [GGI: 1276].

Muriel Spark (1918-  )

MANSFIELD, Joseph Gerard. “Another World Than This: The Gothic and the Catholic in the Novels of Muriel Spark.” [GGI: 2064].

WOLFREYS, Julian. “Muriel Spark’s Mary Shelley: A Gothic and Liminal Life” (pp. 67-79). In Theorizing Murial Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction, ed.  Martin McQuillan. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2002.

 J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

ELLISON, John A “Sublime Scenes and Horrid Novels: Milestones Along the Road to Middle Earth.” [GGII: 0788].

HOOD, Gwenyth. “Sauron and Dracula.” [GGII: 07-31].

INGLIS, Fred.  “Gentility and Powerlessness: Tolkien and the New Class.” [GGII: 0793].

SMITH, Arden R. "Tolkienien Gothic" (267-81). In The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder, ed. Wayne G. Hammond. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2006.

H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

DRYDEN, Linda. "'The Coming Terror': Wells's Outcast London and the Modern Gothic." (pp. 41-55). In Victorian Gothic, eds. Katherine Sayer & Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds, UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, 2003.

FRIED, Michael. “Impressionist Monsters: H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau” (pp. 195-212). In Frankenstein, Creation, and Monstrosity, ed.  Stephen Bann. London : Reaktion, 1994.

HARRIS, Mason. “Vivisection, the Culture of Science, and Intellectual Uncertainty in The Island of Doctor Moreau.” Gothic Studies 4 (2002): 99-115 .

WILT, Judith. “Imperial Month: Imperialism, the Gothic, and Science Fiction.” [GGI: 2226].

Rebecca West [Cecily Isabel Fairfield Andrews] (1892-1983)

RAY, Philip E. “The Judge Re-Examined: Rebecca West’s Underrated Gothic Romance.” [GGII: 0803].

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

SEED, David. “‘Psychical’ Cases: Transformations of the Supernatural in Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair” (pp. 44-61). In Gothic Modernisms, eds.  Andrew Smith and Jeff Wallace. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York: Palgrave, 2001.