http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/gothic-literature Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 02 May 2026 05:29:52 -0400 Sat, 02 May 2026 05:29:52 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1938/gothic-romance-in-the-haunting-of-bly-manor-the-modern-transformation-of-the-victorian-gothic By Lotte De Boer - This article explores the expression of the Gothic romance genre in the 21st century, by examining Mike Flannagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor. Very little literature focuses on contemporary expressions of this genre. The Gothic reflects the social, cultural, and political anxieties of society, and these naturally differ between works depending on the time they were written. Due to emancipation, the conventional central problem of the Gothic Romance – love as the main obstacle – is no longer feasible in our contemporary society. Furthermore, many of the repressed themes often... Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:20 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1938/gothic-romance-in-the-haunting-of-bly-manor-the-modern-transformation-of-the-victorian-gothic http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1895/revenant-narratives-and-the-representation-of-demonic-lovers-in-english-gothic-ballads By Maggie E. Sadler - The Demon-Lover functions as a significant motif in English Gothic ballad tradition, which scholar Hugh Shields articulates as a “supernatural intrusion into a narrative which is of this world” (Shields p. 107). While this intrusion implies the violent and problematic sexual dynamics of the Demon-Lover Motif, Shields’s statement also speaks to how writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries capitalized on the popularity of Gothic conventions such as horror and the grotesque supernatural to imperfectly resurrect the declining literary traditions of folklore and... Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:35 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1895/revenant-narratives-and-the-representation-of-demonic-lovers-in-english-gothic-ballads http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1867/edgar-allan-poe-and-race-analyzing-the-absent-negro-trope-in-gothic-literature By Jennifer Celeste - Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing about a wide variety of controversial topics, such as death, murder, and addiction. However, one topic that his work tends to avoid is race and/or racism. Instead, he often chooses to include marginalized groups of people in tertiary roles, intentionally or unintentionally utilizing stereotypes associated with each marginalized subject to enhance or reveal insights on many of the more overt themes included in his literature. This paper will analyze Pompey, a side character in Poe’s “How to Write a Blackwood Article” in order to assess how... Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:21 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1867/edgar-allan-poe-and-race-analyzing-the-absent-negro-trope-in-gothic-literature http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1862/the-development-of-the-modern-author-in-horace-walpoles-castle-of-otranto-and-strawberry-hill By Megan E. Ritchie - Much contemporary literary criticism has been devoted to Horace Walpole’s novel, The Castle of Otranto; so, too, has much criticism been directed toward the author’s villa, Strawberry Hill. And yet the conversations surrounding these two entities have largely been kept exclusive. This article seeks to establish a relationship between The Castle of Otranto and Strawberry Hill, given that the latter was constructed at a point in literary history where writing shifts from a private patronage system, heavily linked to the physical manuscript, to a commercial economy... Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:44 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1862/the-development-of-the-modern-author-in-horace-walpoles-castle-of-otranto-and-strawberry-hill http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1582/ghosts-of-romanticism-in-neil-gaimans-childrens-fiction By Padma Jagannathan - From the point of view of childhood, modern Western society shows many parallels to the Romantic Age. While the industrial economy caused rapid changes to the landscape and lives of children, forcing millions of them into labor, the informational economy is similarly having a tremendous impact on children’s lives. Never before has a generation found so much freedom in the virtual world while at the same time having real-life experiences so tightly controlled by parents and society. Some social scientists argue that kids in the West suffer from ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ and will... Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:59 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1582/ghosts-of-romanticism-in-neil-gaimans-childrens-fiction http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/898/trauma-reenactment-in-the-gothic-loop-a-study-on-structures-of-circularity-in-gothic-fiction By Andrea Juranovszky - Ever since its original emergence, Gothic fiction has been shaped by a unique narrative direction that is often described by scholars and readers alike as retrospective, repetitive, or circular in nature. Gothic texts progress as if through a series of flashbacks, always reviving deeds of the past in order to point out a problem, which, however strongly rooted in some ancient heritage, prevails in the present and calls for immediate resolution. David B. Morris defines the typically Gothic vision of history as one where “the past interpenetrates the present time, as if events were never entirely... Fri, 23 May 2014 10:46 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/898/trauma-reenactment-in-the-gothic-loop-a-study-on-structures-of-circularity-in-gothic-fiction http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/885/jane-eyre-as-a-female-gothic-novel By Aparna Srivastava - Charlotte Brontë invests gothic elements in Jane Eyre with a symbolic meaning to create a new, ‘female’ language. It is through this female Gothic language that Brontë creates a heroine whose autobiographical mode of writing is used to trace a story of female rebellion and search for identity. Although the use of gothic as the new ‘female’ language is a subversion of the predominant phallocentric language of the time, the need for a woman writer to make her assertions through the gothic, the symbolic and therefore the indirect implies that this new female gothic... Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:08 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/885/jane-eyre-as-a-female-gothic-novel http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/714/echoes-in-gothic-romance-stylistic-similarities-between-jane-eyre-and-rebecca By Stephanie S. Haddad - When Daphne DuMaurier's acclaimed Gothic romance novel Rebecca debuted in 1938, it was devoured by the female readers of its day. Ultimately, however, criticisms of DuMaurier's most famous novel were quick to point out its irrefutable resemblance to another Gothic romance novel written nearly 100 years prior: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847). Whether it was intentional or not, DuMaurier never commented on the novels' similarities, but the evidence speaks for itself, extending far beyond heroines and plotlines.Today, the two classics are still read and discussed in modern literature classrooms... Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:28 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/714/echoes-in-gothic-romance-stylistic-similarities-between-jane-eyre-and-rebecca