Italian Gothic

General Studies
Carolina Invernizio
Tommaso Landolfi
Alessandro Manzoni
Matilde Serao
Ugo Tarchetti

1.) General Studies

BILLIANI, Francesca and Gigliola SULIS. The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007.

DEMATA, Massimiliano. “Introduction: Italy and the Gothic.” Gothic Studies 8 (2006): 1-8.

KLEIN, Jürgen. “Terror and Historicity in the Work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi.” [GGII: 1332].

RICHARDS, P.L. “The Italian Novel as Influenced by English Gothic Fiction.” [GGI: 2211].

SHEEHY, Maureen Elizabeth. “Fear as Prime Mov-er: A Study of Gothic Conventions in the Italian Historical Novel from 1818 to 1828.” [GGI: 2213].

SAGLIA, “From Gothic Italy to Italy as Gothic Archive: Italian Narratives and the Late Romantic Metrical Tale.” Gothic Studies 8 (2006): 73-90.

2.) Carolina Invernizio (1860-1916 )

GAUDENZI, Cosetta. “Women and Colonial Propaganda in Italy: Carolina Invernizio’s Odio di Araba.” Romance Languages Annual 10 (1998): 255-64.

3.) Tommaso Landolfi (1908- )

RUFFILLI, Paolo. “La Poesia gotica di Tommaso Landolfi.” [GGII: 1347] .

4.) Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)

JONES, Verena. “Between History, Fairytale, and Gothic: The Journey in I promessi sposi” (pp. 9-21). Literature and Travel, ed. Michael Hanne. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.

5.) Matilde Serao (1856-1927)

FANNING, Ursula. “Serao’s Gothic Revisions: Old Tales Through New Eyes.” The Italianist: Journal of the Department of Italian Studies, 12 (1992): 32-41.

SALSINI, Laura Anne. “Beyond Verismo: Matilde Serao’s Romance Narratives and Gothic Tales.” Dissertation Abstracts International 56:6 (1995): 2260A

6.) Ugo Tarchetti (1841-1869)

DEL PRINCIPE, David Robert. “Rebellion, Death, and Æsthetics in Scapigliatura: A Comparative Study of Psychosexual, Gothic, and Decadent Experimentalism in the Works of Ugo Tarchetti and the Scapigliati.” Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 4421A

DEL PRINCIPE, David R. “Misbegotten, Unbegotten, Forgotten: Vampires and Monsters in the Works of Ugo Tarchetti, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic Tradition.” Forum Italicum 29 (1995): 3-25.

DEL PRINCIPE, David. "The Reality of Ugo Tarchetti's Gothic." Gothic Studies 98 (2006): 52-67.