By refusing to idealise or victimise the women in Wuthering Heights, Brontë reveals herself as an early feminist.
Articles on Gothic fiction
Displaying 21 - 25 of 25 articles
Gothic fiction has become the ideal genre for exploring the grotesque, frightening aspects of coming of age. And disruptive girls with supernatural powers have replaced the passive heroines of old.
Horror loves evil twins and doubles because of concepts like the uncanny and otherness. They also provide memorable images for movie makers.
Most child sex abuse happens within families, but we still cling on to the Victorian idea of paedophiles as outsiders.
Written by a teenager, Frankenstein is an extraordinary novel that still endures 200 years after its first publication.
Top contributors
-
Reader in English Literature and Film, Manchester Metropolitan University
-
Professor of English Literature, University of Dundee
-
Professor of 19th Century Literature and Culture, King's College London
-
Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
-
Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
-
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Southern Cross University
-
PhD Candidate and Part-time Teacher, Aberystwyth University
-
PhD candidate, University of Sydney
-
Professor of English and Irish Literature concentration coordinator, University of Connecticut
-
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
-
Senior Lecturer in Radio Studies, University of Salford
-
Professor Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle
-
Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University
-
Lecturer in Victorian literature, School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde