Victorian Gothic

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General Studies

AKERVIK, Caroline Isabelle. “The Gothic Monster: Exploring Victorian Fin de Siècle Fears.” Master’s Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1999.

ANDERMAN, Elizabeth Quainton. “Visible Sensations: Ekphrasis and Illustration in Victorian Sensation Novels.” Dissertation Abstracts International 67:10 (2007): 3826 (University of Colorado).

ARMITT, Lucy J. “Ghosts and Hauntings in the Victorian Novel” (151-61). In A Companion to the Victorian Novel, eds. William Baker, Kenneth Womack. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 

ARMSTRONG. Neil. "'Gothic Going Mad': Aspects of Christmas Church Decoration in the Nineteenth Century." (3-11). In Victorian Gothic, eds. Katherine Sayer & Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds, UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, 2003.

BLEILER, E.F. “Introduction.” To Five Victorian Ghost Novels. [GGI: 2159].

BLEILER, E.F.. “Introduction.” To Three Supernatural Novels of the Victorian Period: The Haunted Hotel [Wilkie Collins], The Haunted House at Latchford [Mrs. J. H. Riddell], The Lost Stradivarius [J. Meade Falkner]. [GGI: 2160].

BLOCK, Ed. “James Sully, Evolutionist Psychology, and Late Victorian Gothic Fiction.” [GGI: 2161].

BLOCK, Ed.. Rituals of Disintegration: Romance and Madness in the Victorian Psycho-Mythic Tale. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.

BOIVIN, Aurélian. “Dossier littéraire: Le Fantastique; Le Conte surnatural au XIXe siècle.” Quebec Francais 50 (1983): 34-39. [Literary File; The Fantastic; The Supernatural Tale in the 19th Century].

BRANTLINGER, Patrick. “What is ‘Sensational’ About the ‘Sensation Novel?’” [GGI: 2162].

BRIEFEL, Aviva. “The Victorian Literature of Fear." Literature Compass 4 (2007): 508-23. 

BURT, Daniel Scott. “Melodrama, Sensation, and Suspense in the Victorian Novel.” [GGI: 2164].

BYRON, Glennis. “Gothic in the 1890s” (132-42). In A Companion to the Gothic, ed. David Punter. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

CARSE, Wendy Kay. “Domesticity and the Victorian Gothic Short Story: ‘Flesh and blood is not made for such encounters.’” Dissertation Abstract International, 53:6 (19-92): 1921A (Tulane University). 

DAVISON, Carol Margaret. “Burning Down the Master’s (Prison)-House: Revolution and Revelation in Colonial and Postcolonial Female Gothic” (136-54). In Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, eds. Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003.

DAVISON, Carol. "The Ghost of Genres Past: Theorizing the Gothic in the Victorian Novel." (23-40). In Victorian Gothic, eds. Katherine Sayer & Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds, UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, 2003.

DEBENHAM. Helen. "The Victorian Sensation Novel." (209-22). In A Companion to the Victorian Novel, eds. William Baker & Kenneth Womack. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

DEMOOR, Marysa. “Male Monsters or Monstrous Males in Victorian Women’s Fiction” (173-82). In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, eds. Valeria Tinkler Viviani, Peter Davidson, and Jane Stevenson. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1995.

DICKERSON, Vanessa D. Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural. Columbia, MO: Missouri University Press, 1996.

DUNAE, Patrick. “Penny Dreadfuls: Late Nineteenth Century Boys’ Literature and Crime.” [GGI: 2166].

DUPEYRON-LAFAY, Françoise. L'Hybridation Génerique: Representations Gothiques et Fantastiquesdes Maisonset de la Ville dans la Fiction Realiste Victorienne. ????

EDWARDS, P.D. Some Mid-Victorian Thrillers: The Sensation Novel, Its Friends and Foes. [GGI: 2167].

ELLIS, S.M. “The Ghost Story and its Exponents.” [GGI: 2168].

FLASDIECK, Claudia. Die Rezeption der Gothic Novel in Ausgewählten Werken der Viktorianischen Literatur. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005.

GILBERT, R.A. “Penny Dreadfuls” (p. 172).  In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

GOSS, Michael. “A Sense of Wonder, A Sense of Fear: Aspects of the Supernatural in Victorian Life and Popular Literature.” [GGI: 2170].

HAINING, Peter. “Introduction.” To The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies. [GGI: 2171].

HAINING, Peter. “Introduction.” To A Circle of Witches: An Anthology of Victorian Witchcraft Stories. [GGI: 2172].

HELLER, Tamar. "Recent Work on Victorian Gothic and Sensation Fiction." Victorian Literature and Culture 24 (1996): 349-66.

HOLLOWAY Lorretta M. & Jennifer A. PALM-GREN, eds. Beyond Arthurian Romances and Gothic Thrillers: The Reach of the Victorian Medievalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005..

HOUSTON, Gail Turley & Gillian BEER. From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

HUGHES, Winifred. The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s. [GGI: 2177].

HURLEY, Kelly. “The Novel of the Gothic Body: Deviance, Abjection, and Late Victorian Popular Fiction.” [GGII: 1388].

HURLEY, Sue. “The Victorian Veil of Death and the Female Gothic Tradition.” Master’s Thesis. Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2002.

IVY, Randolph Woods. “The Victorian Sensation Novel: A Study in Formula Fiction.” [GGI: 2178].

JACKSON, Rosemary. “The Silenced Text: Shades of Gothic in Victorian Fiction.” [GGI: 2179].

KENNEDY, Meegan. "The Ghost in the Clinic: Gothic Medicine and Curious Fiction in Samuel Warren's Diary of a Late Physician." Victorian Literature and Culture 32 (2004): 327-51.

KINCAID, James R. “‘Designing Gourmet Children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!’” (1-11). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000.

KITSON, Peter J. “Victorian Gothic” (163-76).  In A Companion to the Victorian Novel, eds. William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

LOESBERG, Jonathan. “The Ideology of Narrative Form in Sensation Fiction.” [GGII: 1391].

LUCKHURST, Roger. “Trance-Gothic, 1882-97” (148-67). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century, eds. Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys. New York, NY : Palgrave, 2000.

MALCHOW, Howard L. “The Half-Breed as Gothic Unnatural” (101-11). In The Victorians and Race, ed. Shearer West. Aldershot, UK : Scholar, 1996.

MELANI, Sandro. l’eclissi del consueto: Angeli, demoni e vampiri nell’immaginario vittoriano. Napoli, Italia: Liguori, 1996. [The Eclipse of the Usual: Angels, Demons, and Vampires in the Victorian Imagination].

MEWS, Siegfried. “Sensationalism and Sentimentality: Minor Victorian Prose Writers in Germany.” [GGI: 2210].

MIGHALL, Robert. “‘A pestilence which walketh in darkness:’ Diagnosing the Victorian Vampire” (108-24). In Spectral Readings : Towards a Gothic Geography, eds. Glennis Byron and David Punter. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

MILBANK, Alison. Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction. [GGII: 1392].

MILBANK, Alison . “From the Sublime to the Uncanny: Victorian Gothic and Sensation Fiction” (169-79). In Gothick Origins and Innovations, eds. Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith. Amsterdam; Atlanta, Georgia : Rodopi; Costerus New Series 91, 1994: 169-179.

MILBANK, Alison . “The Victorian Gothic in English novels and stories, 1830-1880” (145-65). In The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

MUSTAFA, Jamil Muhammed. “Mapping the Late Victorian Subject: Psychology, Cartography, and the Gothic Novel.” Dissertation Abstracts International 60:6 (1999): 2040 (University of Chicago).

O'MALLEY, Patrick R. Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

REED, John R. “The Occult in Later Victorian Literature.” In Victorian Conventions. [GGI: 2185].

RIDENHOUR, Jamieson Michael. “In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in the Victorian Era." Dissertation Abstracts International 65:8 (2005): 3003 (University of South Carolina).

ROBBINS, Ruth and WOLFREYS, Julian. Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave, 2000.

SAUNDERS, Vanessa Dickerson. “Gentle Spirits: Female Writers of the Supernatural.” [GGII: 1397].

SAYER, Karen & Rosemary MITCHELL. Victorian Gothic. Leeds, UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, 2003.

SCHMITT, Cannon. “The Gothic Romance in the Victorian Period” (302-17). In A Companion to the Victorian Novel, eds. Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.

SCOGGIN, Daniel Paul. “Gothic Capital: Speculation, Specters, and Atonement in the Victorian Novel.” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:4 (1998): 1181A (Claremont Graduate University).

SHERIDAN, Daniel P. “Later Victorian Ghosts: Supernatural Fiction and Social Attitudes, 1870-1900.” [GGI: 2188].

SHERIDAN, Daniel P. “Later Victorian Ghost Stories: The Literature of Belief.” [GGI: 2189].

SHOCKLEY, Evelyn Elaine. "The Tyranny of Domesticity: Identity and Gothic in British Victorian and Twentieth Century African American Literature." Dissertation Abstracts International 64:3 (2003): 899 (Duke University).

SMITH, Andrew. Victorian Demons: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press/Palgrave, 2004..

SMITH, Elton and Robert HAAS, eds. The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1999.

SPENCER, Kathleen. “Victorian Urban Gothic: The First Modern Fantastic Literature.” In Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction. [GGII: 1399].

SPRINGHALL, John. “Victorian Video Nasties.” [GGII: 1400].

STASIAK, Lauren Anne. “Victorian Professionals, Intersubjectivity, and the Fin de Siècle Gothic Text.” Dissertation Abstracts International 63:11 (2003): 3955 (University of Washington).

STERN, Rebecca F. “Gothic Light: Vision and Visibility in the Victorian Novel.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 11:4 (1994): 26-39.

STETZ, Margaret D. “‘Can Anyone Picture My Agony?’: Visualizing Gender, Imperialism, and Gothic Horror in the Wide World Magazine of 1898." Victorian Periodicals Review 40 (2007): 24-43.

SULLIVAN, Jack. “Introduction.” To Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood. [GGI: 2190].

SUMMERS, Montague. “Introduction.” To The Supernatural Omnibus. [GGI: 2191].

SUMMY, Melisa Ann. “The Empire Bites Back: Abjection in the Late Victorian Gothic novel.” Master’s Thesis, Miami University , 2001.

TALAIRACH, Laurence. "Behind the Scenes of Women's Beauty Parlours: From Gothicism to Sensationalism." (124-40). In Victorian Gothic, eds. Karen Sayer. Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds. UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies. Trinity All Saints College. University of Leeds. 2003.

TRANSUE, Harriet. “The Sensation Years: The Literary Character of England in the 1860s.” [GGI: 2194].

VANN, Joretta Joyce. “Ghosts Upon the Daylight: Fantasy and Realism in Nineteenth Century Britain.” [GGII: 1402].

WAMELING, Grete. “Geisterhaftes und okkultisches in der englischen erzählerkunst von 1880-1890.” [GGI: 2196].

WHELAN, Lara Baker. ‘Dying of one’s neighbours’: Constructions of Suburban Anxieties in British literature, 1850-1880.” Dissertation Abstracts International 60:11 (2000): 4024 (University of Delaware).

WILLIS, Chris. "A House for the Dead: Victorian Mausolea and Graveyard Gothic." (155-65). In Victorian Gothic, eds. Katherine Sayer & Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds, UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, 2003.

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

WOLFREYS, Julian. Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature. New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915)

ASHLEY, Mike. “BRADDON, M(ary) E(lizabeth)”  (80-83). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/ Gale, 1998.

BRIGANTI, Chiara. “Gothic Maidens and Sensation Women: Lady Audley’s Journey from the Ruined Mansion to the Madhouse.” [GGII: 1381].

HUGHES, Winifred. “The Wickedness of Woman: M.E. Braddon and Mrs. Henry Wood.” In The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s. [GGI: 2177].

NYBERG, Benjamin Matthew. “The Novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915): A Reappraisal of the Author of Lady Audley’s Secret.” [GGI: 2184].

SCHROEDER, Natalie. “Feminine Sensationalism, Eroticism, and Self-Assertion: M.E. Braddon and Ouida.” [GGII: 1398].

SUMMERS, Montague. “Miss Braddon.” [GGI: 21-92].

TILLEY, Elizabeth. “Gender and Role Playing in Lady Audley’s Secret ” (97-104). In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, eds. Valeria Tinkler Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1995.

UNSIGNED. “Miss Braddon: The Writer and Her Work.” [GGI: 2183].

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

WYNNE-DAVIES, Marion . “The ‘Anxious Dream’: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Gothic Perspective” (129-47). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave, 2000.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)

CHAPMAN, Alison. “Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence and Technologies of the Uncanny” (109-28). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2000.

George du Maurier (0000-0000)

ANOLIK, Ruth Bienstock. "The Infamous Svengali: George du Maurier's Satanic Jew." (163-93) in The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, eds. Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. 

J. Meade Falkner (1858-1932)

MC EVOY, Emma. “' Really. though secretly. a Papist'”: G.K. Chesterton's and J. Meade Falkner's Rewritings of the Gothic." Literature and Theology: An International Journal of Religion. Theory. and Culture 18:1 (2004): 49-61.

STABLEFORD, Brian. “FALKNER, J(ohn) Meade” (215-16). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/ Gale, 1998.

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1866)

ASHLEY, Michael. “Introduction.” To Mrs. Gaskell’s Tales of Mystery and Horror. [GGII: 0777].

KRANTZLER, Laura. “Introduction” (xi-xxxii). To Gothic Tales. New York : Penguin Books, 2000.

REDDY, Maureen. “Female Sexuality in ‘The Poor Clare:’ The Demon in the House.” [GGII: 1395].

SHELSTON, Alan. “The Supernatural in the Stories of Elizabeth Gaskell” (137-46). In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, eds. Valeria Tinkler Viviani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1995.

SUCKSMITH, Harvey. “Mrs. Gaskell’s Mary Barton and William Mudford’s ‘The Iron Shroud.’” [GGI: 12-87].

Violet Hunt (1866-1942)

ASHLEY, Mike. “HUNT, (Isobel) Violet” (285-87). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

SECOR, Marie and Robert SECOR. “Violet Hunt’s Tales of the Uneasy: Ghost Stories of a Worldly Woman.” [GGI: 2186].

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936)

BLEILER, E.F. “Introduction.” To Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. [GGI: 1188].

COX, J. Randolph. “Montague Rhodes James: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him.” [GGI: 1189].

COX, J. Randolph. “Ghostly Antiquary: The Stories of Montague Rhodes James.” [GGI: 1190].

COX, J. Randolph. “Introduction.” To The Ghost Stories of M.R. James. [GGII: 0784].

COX, Michael. “Introduction” (xi-xxx). To M.R. James. ‘Casting the Runes’ and Other Ghost Stories. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

FIELDING, Penny. “Reading Rooms: M.R. James and the Library of Modernity.” Modern Fiction Studies 46 (2000): 749-71.

HAINING, Peter. The M.R. James Book of the Supernatural. [GGI: 1192].

HUGHES, William. “James, Montague Rhodes (1862-1936)” (143-44). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

LANGFORD, David. “JAMES, M(ontague) R(hodes)” (301-03). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

LUBBOCK, Samuel Guerney. A Memoir of Montague Rhodes James. With a list of his writings by A.L. Schol-field. [GGI: 1193].

MICHALSKI, Robert. “The Malice of Inanimate Objects: Exchange in M.R. James’s Ghost Stories.” Extrapolation 37 (1996): 46-62. Discusses the various ways in which James integrated past religious beliefs and superstitions into his ghost stories. Also draws comparisons with  the ghostly stories of Arthur Machen.

RUSSELL, Samuel D. “Irony and Horror: The Art of M.R. James. [GGI: 1194].

Vernon Lee [Violet Paget] (1856-1935)

ROBBINS, Ruth. “Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee’s Androgynous Spectres” (182-200). In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2000.

Richard Marsh (1867-1915)

HURLEY, Kelly. “‘The Inner Chambers of All Nameless Sin:’ The Beetle , Gothic Female Sexuality and Or-iental Barbarism” (193-213). In Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature, ed. Lloyd Davis. Albany, NY : SUNY Press, 1993.

STABLEFORD, Brian. “MARSH, Richard” (385-87). In In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897)

GRAY, Margaret K. “Introduction.” To Margaret Oliphant: Selected Stories of the Supernatural. [GGII: 791].

STABLEFORD, Brian. “OLIPHANT, Mrs. (Marga-ret)” (439-43). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

Thomas Peckett Prest / James Malcolm Rymer (1810-1859)

ASHLEY, Mike. “PREST, Thomas Peckett” (459-61). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

BLEILER, E.F. “Introduction.” To Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood. [GGI: 1163].

LIU, Humphrey. “Introduction” (3-13). To Bride of the Vampyre, The Coming of the Second Vampyre, Varney the Vampyre. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Wildside Press, 2002.

ROBERTS, Bette B. “Varney, the Vampyre, or, Rather, Varney the Victim.” [GGII: 0677].

VARMA, Devendra P. “Introduction.” To Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood. [GGI: 1164].

WILSON, John James. “Penny Dreadfuls and Penny Bloods.” [GGII: 0678].

 G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879)

BLEILER, E.F. “Introduction.” To Wagner the Wehrwolf. [GGI: 2361].

BLEILER, E.F.. “G.W.M. Reynolds.” In Supernatural Fiction Writers. [GGII: 0779].

BURT, Daniel. A Victorian Gothic: G.W.M. Reynolds’ Mysteries of London.” [GGI: 2165].

MAXWELL, Richard C. Jr. “G.W.M. Reynolds, Dickens, and The Mysteries of London.” [GGI: 2181].

MORGAN, Chris. “REYNOLDS, G(eorge) W(il-liam) M(acarthur)” (473-74). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

Mrs. J.H. Riddell (1832-1906)

ASHLEY, Mike. “RIDDELL, Mrs. J.H.” (478-80). In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

AMIGONI. David. "Gothic Choirs and Gothic Fictions: Habitus, Moral Space, and Identity in the Autobiographies of Ruskin and Newman." (231-46). In Mapping the Self: Space, Identity, Discourse in British Auto/Biography, ed. Frédéric Regard, preface Geoffrey Wall. Saint Etienne, France: Université de Saint Etienne, 2003.
Mrs. Henry Wood (0000-0000)

MANGHAM, Andrew. "'I See It. But I Cannot Explain It': Female Gothicism and the Narrative of Female Incarceration in the Novels of Mrs. Henry Wood." (81-98). In Victorian Gothic, eds. Karen Sayer. Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds. UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies. Trinity All Saints College. University of Leeds. 2003.