Review: The Gothic Novel and the Stage

The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic Appropriations By Francesca Saggini. (Oxford: Routledge, 2015.  299 pages). ISBN 9781848934146 Francesca Saggini’s book The Gothic Novel and the Stage examines the relationship between two very important genres: the Gothic novel and the Gothic drama in the late 18th and the early 19th century. Her study highlights the transformation …

Review: Horror: A Literary History

Horror: A Literary History Ed. Xavier Aldana Reyes, (London: British Library Publishing, 2016), 224 pages, ISBN: 9780712356084 Following the publication of Body Gothic (2014) and Horror Film and Affect (2016), Xavier Aldana Reyes continues to draw scholarly attention to the oft-maligned genre of horror. Unlike his previous publications, Horror: A Literary History is an edited …

Review: Globalgothic

Globalgothic Ed. Glennis Byron. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. 228 pages). ISBN 9781526106902 Glennis Byron’s Globalgothic is immediately both alienating and alluring on conceptual and titular levels. The unification of ‘global’ and ‘gothic’ into a single monster genre jars the reader of this critical collection before the cover has even been turned; unlike the common …