WELCOME to our
OLDE TYME GOTHIC LITERATURE PAGE!
Many of today's goths (referring to the goth subculture) are probably
not too familiar with the gothic literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Their interests frequently center around writers such as Anne Rice,
Poppy Z. Brite, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and some books written (by a variety
of writers) for the Vampire Masquerade published by White Wolf Publishers
and other vampire gaming. Here we will concentrate on the gothic literature
of old, the type preferred by non-goths. Gothic popular literature
developed during the Romantic Period in Europe. The early gothic writers
were opposed to rationalism. They were concerned with the chaotic,
the emotional, the subconscious, fear of the supernatural and the monstrous,
and ultimately the fear of pain and death. Their written works relied
heavily on supernatural elements and created a terrible sense of dread.
Alegenon Blackwood, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, J. K. Huysmans,
M. R. James, Sheridan LeFanu, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Radcliffe,
Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker were among the most notable. We will cover
them as well as several contemporary writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Anne
Rice, Dennis Wheatley, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Our emphasis is
concentrated on the literature and not any subculture old or new.
Submissions are welcome. We are seeking articles and book reviews.
Email for guidelines at
zinester@zworg.com or
zinesterhere@yahoo.com Until we
have some submissions to include here enjoy our recommended books and links
devoted to the Olde Tyme Gothic.
A Companion to the Gothic
by David Punter
Classic Horror Writers
edited by Harold Bloom
Elements of the Gothic Novel
by Robert Harris
In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century
Writing
by Chris Baldick
Melmoth the Wanderer (fiction)
by Charles Maturin
Northanger Abbey (fiction)
Jane Austen
Penny Dreadfuls and Other Victorian Horrors
by Michael Anglo
Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination
by Colin Wilson
The Castle of Otranto, Vathek: An Arabian Tale, The Vampire
(fiction)
by Horace Walpole, William Beckford, John Polidori
The Gothic
by Fred Botting
The Grotesque in English Literature
Arthur Clayborough
The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature
edited by Elton E.Smith & Robert Haas
The History of Gothic Fiction
by Markman Ellis
The Italian (fiction)
by Anne Radcliffe
The Literature of Terror, Vol. 1 The Gothic Tradition
by David Pinter
The Literature of the Gothic
by David Punter
The Monk: A Romance (fiction)
by Mathew Lewis
The Mysteries of Udolpho (fiction)
by Anne Radcliffe
The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story (fiction)
by Clara Reeve
The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment
Walter Kendrick
Uncle Silas (fiction)
by Sheridan LeFanu
MORE WILL BE ADDED.
LINKS
Doug Thomson's Gothic
http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/dougt/gothic.htm
The Haunted Library
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/facultypages/gothic/gothicindex.htm
18th-Century Gothic Fragments
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Gothic/
Lord Ruthven Assemby
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/LRA?lra.html
International Gothic Association
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/iga/
J. K. Huysmans
http://www.huysmans.org/uk/
The Literary Gothic
http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html
Victorian Popular Fiction
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uclekch/
Literary Gothicism
http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/romantic/topic_2/welcome.htm
Sublime Anxiety The Gothic Family and the Outsider
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/gothic/index.html
Romanticism on the Net
http://www.sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/
Victorian Web
http://65.107.211.206/victov.html
Romantic Circles
http://www.rc.umd.edu/indexjava.html
Gothic Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read
http://www2.gasone.edu/facstaff/dougt/gothic.htm
The Sickly Taper
http://www.pagdepot.com/thesicklytaper/
Gaslight
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/
Cyclopedia of Ghost Story Writers
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~agg/ghosts/
Gothic Literature
http://iris.nyit.edu/~dhogsett/romanticsunbound/gothic.html
The Sublime: Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/sublime/sublimeov.html
The Gothic Literature PAge
http://members.aol.com/iamudolpho/basic.html
http://members.aol.com/iamudolpho/graveyard.html
Gothic Novel Web
http://academic.marist.edu/faculty/gothicno.htm
Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Literature
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/sadleir-black/index.html
Ghostly Links
http://www.ghosts.org/links.html
Vampirei Europeana
http://www-lib.usc.edu/~melindah/eurovamp/vampeuro.html
Gothic Literature
http://members.aol.com/gothlit/biblio.html
Primary bibliography Gothic novels, films, and paintings
http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/gothictexts.html
Secondary Bibliography
http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/gothictheory.html
Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms
http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/dougt/goth.html
Frankenstein hypertext project
http://www.usask.ca/english/frank/gothtrad.htm
Elements of the Gothic Novel
http://www.virtualsalt.com/gothic.htm
Romantic Page -- Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750
Graveyard School Overview
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/staff/regmod3.htm
The Italian (by Anne Radcliffe)
http://www.horrormasters.com/Text/a0081_01.pdf
Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte
Smith to the Brontes
http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/hoeveler.html
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/17koeveler.html
Radcliffe-related Student Essays and Bibliographies
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/courses/enec981/milner2.html
Review of the Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/coleridge.reviews
Ann Radcliffe
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/radcliffe/radcliffeov.html
Brief discussion of Anne Radcliffe's novels
http://www.bartleby.com/221/1317.html
M. R. James Page
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~fadey/mrjframes.html
Ghost Stories by M. R. James
http://www.encompass.net/~ctyson/ghost.htm
Ghosts and Scholars
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/GS.html
The Weird Works of M. R. James
http://www.eldritchdark.com/wri/non-fict/homages/weird_works_of_mr_james.html
LeFanu
http://mural.uv.es/franqui/engmain.html
Discussion of "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter"
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/lfanumen.htm
http://www.violetbooks.com/REVIEWS/rbadac-schalken.html
Discussion of Ghostly Tales
http://www.violetbooks.com/REVIEWS/rockhill-lefan.html
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
http://www.victorianweb.org/books/suicide/06d.html
LeFanu and Sensation Fiction
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/sensatio.htm#LeFanurbadac-lefanu.html
M. R. James on J. S. LeFanu
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/ArchiveLeFanu.html
Mary Shelley Page
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/maryshelmaryshel.shtml
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology and Resource Page
http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/mschronology/mws.html
My Hideous Progeny
http://home-1.worldline.ul/~hamberg/
The Shelleys and their Circle: A Gothic Family
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/gothic/shelley.html
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html
Frankenstein Study Anatomy of a Story
http://www.watershed.winnipeg.mb.ca/Frankenstein.html
Frankenstein chronology
http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/Frank-chron.html
"On Ghosts" by Mary Shelley (essay)
http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/on_ghosts.html
Essay -- "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Myth for Modern Man"
http://ntserver.shc.edu/www/Scholar/neal/neal.html
Essay -- "Defining Romanticism: The Implications of Nature Personified
as Female in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre"
http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/2D/A.Renfroe.html
Essay -- "Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Monstrous Worlds, Domestic
Communities and Masculine Romantic Ideology
http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/4A/J.Schuetz.html
Essay -- "Beyond the Usual Bounds of Reverie: Another Look at the Dreams
in Frankenstein"
http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/Authors/mshelley_dreams.html
Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/conger.html
In Search of Frankenstein: Exploring the Myths behind Mary Shelley's
Monster
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/florescu.html
Mary Shelley Revisited
http://www-sul.standford.edu/mirrors/romnet/stevenson.html
Dissecting Anatomy of Literature: a review of Murdering To Dissect:
Grave-robbing, Frankenstein and The Anatomy Literature
http://www-sul.standford.edu/mirrors/romnet/marshall.html
Bram Stoker Dracula Page
http://www.english.ubc.ca/~gmbaxter/dracnote.htm
The Historical Dracula
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/7569/15.html
Dracula editions
http://www-lib.usc.edu/~melindah/Stoker/dracthum.htm
Wilkie Collins Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/collins/collinsov.html
Wilkie Collins
http://www.deadline.demon.co.uk/wilkie/wilkie.htm
Wilkie Collins Site
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.a.c.jp/~matsuoka/Collins.html
Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page
http://www.rightword.com.au/writers/wilkie/
Lord
Dunsany
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dunsany/index.html
The Chronicles of Air Arthur Conan Doyle
http://www.suacd.com/
Arthur Conan Doyle Society
http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/acdsocy.html
Literary Resources -- Victorian British
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victorian.html
MORE WILL BE ADDED.
