When Sins of Fathers Visit Gothic Protagonists and Novelists
The Biblical phrase that Anna Koustinoudi invokes in her Gothic Studies article, “Temporality, Narrative Discordance and the Phantom as Transgenerational Trauma in Elizabeth Gaskell’s The...
Present and Eternal Time in A Christmas Carol
Beloved time traveler and reformed miser Ebenezer Scrooge picks up what the ghosts of past, present, and future are throwing down. At (tiny) Tim Cratchit's...
How Glorifying Austen by Shifting the Baseline Demeans the Women Who Enabled her to Write in the First Place
V0039905 Two women are fighting in the street as the crowd cheers the Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Two women are fighting...
Presentation script, SCSECS 2019 conference, Dallas, 23 Feb: “Rise of the Female Self: Frances Burney’s Journal, Letter, and Novel Writing as Technologies of Self/care”
Download a copy of the slides here. Slide 1: This project is a reduced version of a seminar paper during a class on a transhistorical...
“You will, perhaps, think better of me than to suspect that I came here [to the Spanish Inquisition] for my own pleasure”: Subverting the Status Quo in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian subverts (see note 1) the status quo by turning ideas, people, forms, genre inside-out, reflecting their outsides, inward, and their insides,...