This essay does not wish to disqualify the important work done on the Female Gothic. The themes this work has identified (women’s domestic incarceration, sexual violence, economic disenfranchisement ...
Last month Transformed explored my least-favorite trope in makeover shows: the “goth to normal” look. Or, as they call it this time, Goth to Gorgeous. Pardon me while I throw up a bit. Nicole ...
Horror comes in many guises. Psychological, violent, gothic, sure. But rarely – in contemporary culture – romantic. Romance (in the modern sense of the word) doesn’t tend to crop up in much modern ...
Get in touch with your dark side, girls (by wearing, say, a vampy shade of nail polish) as it's that time of year again! *tumbleweed* What, don't tell us you didn't diarise it? Pffft! May 22nd is ...
Gothic and technology appear, on the surface, to evoke contradictory connotations. As David Punter and Glennis Byron highlight, the Gothic came to be a term associated with the “ornate and convoluted” ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Female Gothic comprises of three lost gothic spine-tinglers from great ...
Despite over 40 films, television and radio adaptations, Wuthering Heights is still often remembered as an “obsessive romance.” In reality, it is a Gothic Romance – and more specifically, a story that ...