Sound is a signal. It transfers meaning from the sender to the receiver and establishes a
relationship between them, turning ideas into experience, and experience into action. An act …

This is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872).
Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary …

Haunting was, indeed, endemic to the nineteenth century; certainly, we can ascribe the
mass production of the literary ghost story to its towering status. The literary market was …

Abstract Grant Allen (1848-1899) was a well-known populariser of natural history who was
widely recognised for his extensive knowledge of science and his ability to refashion …

This chapter examines the broader print cultural dynamics that impacted upon and
interacted with the ghost story during the nineteenth century. Emerging during the twilight of …

While there are defined Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gothic traditions, there has been a notable
critical absence of a Cornish Gothic tradition, despite multiple canonical and less-canonical …

This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long
nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this …

Released in October 2015, Crimson Peak is a movie written and directed by visionary
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, who codified his work to fit the gothic romance mode …

This thesis is interested in the underexplored links between queer temporalities and the
Gothic, focusing on the potential of their intersection to facilitate representations of female …

Gothic influences were pervasive in Spain's romantic fiction during the midnineteenth
century, particularly in the development of plot devices and characters, as critics such as …