| Gendered Gothic
Literature Resources
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| Reference Sources | |
| Title | Location |
| St. James guide to horror, ghost & gothic writers | Reference Collection: PN3435 .S72 1998 |
| A Brontë companion : literary assessment, background, and reference | Reference Collection: PR4168 .P5 1975b |
| A Mary Shelley encyclopedia | Reference Collection: PR5398.A2 M67 2003 |
| The Oxford companion to the Brontës | Reference Collection: PR4167.A3 O94 2003 |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula : a documentary volume | Reference Collection: PN451 .D5 v.304 |
| A Henry James encyclopedia | Reference Collection: PS2122 .G35 1989 |
| The Toni Morrison encyclopedia | Reference Collection: PS3563.O8749 Z913 2003 |
| Victorian Life and Victorian Fiction | Reference Collection: PR 872 .M2 |
| Victorian Britain: an encyclopedia | Reference Collection: DA 550 .V53 1988 |
| The Brontës : a documentary volume | Reference Collection: PN451 .D5 v.340 |
| Icons of horror and the supernatural : an encyclopedia of our worst nightmares | Reference Collection:PN56.H6 I26 2007 |
| Books | |
| To find books of criticism on Gothic authors in the Furman Library, select SUBJECT from the search menu in the Library Catalog and type the author's last name then first name. From the resulting list of subject headings, select the ones that say "criticism and interpretation." You can also try a keyword search for your author, book title, and main concepts or theories about the work. For more on searching the catalog, see Searching the Library Catalog. | |
| WorldCat (for finding books at other libraries available through Interlibrary Loan) | |
| Articles | |
| Review of Search Techniques | |
| Title |
Description |
| Modern Language Association Bibliography | A detailed index to journal articles, books and dissertations. Dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. |
| LION (Literature Online) | The world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism. |
| Academic Search Premier | An interdisciplinary database, covering a broad range of subjects. It contains indexing for 8,172 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. |
| Humanities Abstracts Full Text | A general index for research in the humanities. |
| Literary Index | Combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source. Literary Index provides quick and easy access to 40 of our literary series including Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Click here for Titles Indexed. |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The definitive dictionary of the English Language, including comprehensive etymologies, first date of usage noted by excerpt from attributed author. |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index | A specialized tool for researchers to find who has been cited in scholarly works and by whom. |
| Criticism | |
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Location |
| Baldick, Chris. In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity and Nineteenth-Century Writi | General Collection PR5397.F73 B3 1990 |
| Botting, Fred. Gothic | General Collection PR830.T3 B68 1996 |
| Botting, Fred. , ed. The Gothic | General Collection PR830.T3 G67 2001 |
| Clemens, Valdine. The Return of the Repressed | General Collection PR830.T3 C59 1999 |
| Cotton, Daniel. The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott | General Collection PR778.A38 C68 1985 |
| DeLamotte, Eugenia C. Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic | General Collection PR868.T3 D45 1990 |
| Ellis, Kate. The Contested Castle | General Collection PR830.T3 E53 1989 |
| Fleenor, Juliann. The Female Gothic | General Collection PR830.T3 F4 1983 |
| Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality | General Collection HQ12 .F6813 1980 |
| Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Guba. The Madwoman in the Attic | General Collection PR115 .G5 |
| Grixti, Joseh. Terrors of Uncertainty: The Cultural Contexts of Horror Fiction | General Collection PN3435 .G75 1989 |
| Halerstam, Judith. Skin Shows | General Collection PR830.T3 H27 1995 |
| Hendershot, Cyndy. The Animal Within | General Collection PR830.T3 H39 1998 |
| Heller, Terry. The Delights of Terror: An Aesthetics of the Tale of Terror | General Collection PR830.T3 H38 1987 |
| Hoeveler, Dian. Gothic Feminism | General Collection PR830.T3 H64 1998 |
| Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror | General Collection PQ2607.E834 Z73413 1982 |
| Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. The Handbook to Gothic Literature | General Collection PN3435 .H35 1998 |
| Punter, David. The Literature of Terror | General Collection PS408.G68 P8 1996 v. 1 |
| Roberts, Bette. The Gothic Romance: Its Appeal to Women Writers and Readers in Late-Eighteenth-Century England | General Collection PR858.T3 R6 1980 |
| Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Coherence of Gothic Conventions | General Collection PR868.T3 S35 1986 |
| Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 | General Collection RC451.4.W6 S56 1985 |
| Varnado, S. L. Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction | General Collection PR830.S85 V37 1987 |
| Voller, Jack G. The Supernatural Sublime: The Metaphysics of Terror in Anglo-American Romanticism | General Collection PR457 .V65 1994 |
| Williams, Anne. Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic | General Collection PR448.G6 W55 1995 |
| Web Resources | |
| Note: The web sites below were recommended by the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica or Infomine. I have not had time to examine them closely yet. Proceed with caution. --MF | |
| Recommended by Dr. Shackelford. | |
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(Recommended by EB, Infomine and Choice Reviews) | "A Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, classic Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20." |
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Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Information about Mary Shelley's life, her family, her friends and her novels. A large section of this web site is devoted to Frankenstein, offering a summary, a title explanation, character descriptions and information about the genre of Gothic literature. The text of Frankenstein is available in a fully annotated HTML format. |
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(Recommended by Infomine, and with hesitations as to organization by Choice Reviews) | Devoted to study of the Gothic fiction in England from 1764 to 1840, The Gothic Literature Page is intended to provide students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of Gothic resources available on the web. |
| Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Links to texts and criticism from Martin Irvine at Georgetown Univeristy. |
The Gothic: Materials for Study (Recommended by Infomine and Choice Reviews) | Contains sections on Individual and Social Psychologies of the Gothic, The Female Gothic, The Gothic and the Supernatural, The Sublime and the Domestic, and Gothic Drama |
| This page is maintained by Mary Fairbairn. |
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