From Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho to Nabokov’s infamous Lolita, these novels are unsettling not just because of what ...

British biographical drama is a part-fictional portrait of one of the most famous literary figures in history and is ...

American Gothic literature portrays architecture as the repository of memory and guilt as well as decay, and not simply as an aesthetic. From Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables and Jackson’s ...

My research output also encompasses Popular Literature as a broader subject area ... Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave ...

He was 56. Dabove was an expert on postcolonial Latin American literature and culture, bandit narratives and Gothic literature. Considered one of the “most significant commentators of Hispanic ...

a version of the Gothic genre set in and based on the American South. Southern Gothic combines the hallmarks of Gothic literature and the idiosyncrasies of the South, resulting in a unique and ...

Some themes that find their way into Gothic literature, especially American Gothic literature, are the cultural ‘ghosts’ of slavery and racism, Native American genocide and removal, class battles, ...

Today, he is celebrated as one of the greatest American writers ... His legacy as the master of Gothic literature endures, a testament to the enduring power of his imagination and his deep ...