How medieval spires and snarling gargoyles went out of fashion and then made a spectacular return under – you guessed it – the Victorians.
Articles on Gothic
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BBC One’s The Living and the Dead revels in the Victorians’ obsession with the supernatural and the limits of science.
Hamlet begins with a ‘night of the living dead’; Banquo turns into a ghost . The Bard had a supernatural streak and it was crucial to the genesis of Gothic literature.
The dark, disturbing imagery of Bowie’s final album recalls how the artist inspired the goth movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
Crimson Peak reminds us that gothic romance is the originator of modern horror: gothic and romance are inextricably related.
Goth teenagers are just like other teenagers the world over – they get depressed, they laugh, they’re creative – so why do we pigeonhole?
It’s been seven years since Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to Indigenous Australians. On Australia’s stages dramatists continue to explore the ramifications of that apology and colonial history.
In the designer’s embrace of this gothic past, he is an artist for our time.
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Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University
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Reader in English Literature and Film, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University