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A resource of scholarly journals, books, and dissertations with main topics including literature, linguistics, language studies, rhetoric, composition, drama, theory, criticism, teaching, and publishing. Coverage: 1920s-present.
A comprehensive archive of multidisciplinary scholarly journals and books. Coverage: 1800s to 3-5 years ago; Includes ARTstor - images across the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. Coverage: ancient times to today.
Provides digital humanities and social sciences books and scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Coverage 1900s-present.
The database has over 2.1 million full-text dissertations and theses. It also contains indexing of 3.8 million graduate works. Primarily US, UK and Ireland but increasingly from other countries. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress. Coverage: 1861-present.
Digitization of primary source documents and literature, including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, fiction, short prose, dramatic works, and poetry. 1) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, 2) British Politics and Society, 3) British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture, 4) Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest, 5) European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection, 6) Photography: The World Through the Lens, 7) Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925, 8) Women: Transnational Networks. Coverage: 1800s
A collection of newspapers from mainstream news sources and African-American news sources. Publication include: Chicago Tribune (1849-1994); Los Angeles Times (1881-1994); New York Times (1851-2014); Washington Post (1877-2001); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Chicago Defender (1909-1975); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), Civil War era titles, and other newspapers from around the United States. Coverage: 1800s-2005.
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Adapted from the Graduate Program at the University of Virginia
Bernstein, Stephen. "Form and Ideology in the Gothic Novel." Essays in Literature 18 (1991): 151-65.
A materialist critique that uses Althusser and Foucault to read the Gothic novels as reproducing an ultimately conservative an anti-individualist ideology.
Blondel, Jacques. "On 'Metaphysical Prisons.'" Durham University Journal 32 (1971): 133-8.
Discusses literal and figurative imprisonment as recurrent themes in art and literature. Historicist approach.
Byrd, Max. "The Madhouse, the Whorehouse, and the Convent." Partisan Review 44 (1977): 268-78.
Describes madhouse, whorehouse and convent as largely equivalent structures that represent a metaphoric reigning in of unreason and human desire.
Foust, R.E. "Monstrous Image: Theory of Fantasy Antagonists." Genre 13 (1980): 441-53.
Uses theories of the uncanny to discuss the monstrous doubling in Frankenstein and Grendel. Psychoanalytic approach.
Freud, Sigmund. "The Uncanny." The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. & trs. James Strachey. Vol. XVII. London: Hogarth, 1953, pp. 219-252.
Describes the uncanny experience in terms of doubling, death, and uncertainty about the distinction between reality and unreality. Treats the uncanny as both a psychological and a literary phenomenon.
Holland, Norman, and Leona Sherman. "Gothic Possibilities." New Literary History 8 (1977): 278-94.
The authors explore reader-response to the Gothic by discussing their own mental associations with Gothic symbols like the castle and the vulnerable heroine. Psychoanalytic approach.
Lyndenberg, Robin. "Gothic Architecture and Fiction: A Survey of Critical Responses." The Centennial Review 22 (1978): 95-109.
Compares critical responses to Gothic architecture and fiction.
Ozolins, Aija. "Dreams and Doctrines: Dual Strands in Frankenstein." Science-Fiction Studies 2 (1975): 103-10.
Describes Frankenstein as simultaneously supernatural and didatic. Discusses dreams (both Mary Shelley's and Victor Frankenstein's) and the doppelganger theme.
Paulson, Ronald. "Gothic Fiction and the French Revolution." ELH 48 (1981): 532-54.
Analyzes the influence of the Terror within the major "horror-Gothic" novels. Historicist approach.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic Novel." Publication of the Modern Language Association vol. 96:2 (1981): 255-270.
Refutes the widely held notion that sexuality in the Gothic is submerged; suggests that many overtly sexual tropes are manifested in surfaces, not depths.
Voller, Jack G. "Todorov among the Gothics: Structuring the Supernatural Moment." Contours of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ed. Michele K. Langford. New York: Greenwood, 1994. 197-206.
Examines and revises Todorov's structural approach to the Gothic.
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