All Outputs (3)

The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars (2016)
Book Chapter
Williams, S. (2016). The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations (118-137). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_9

Like the bite of the vampire, the theme of marking punctuates Stoker’s work. Birthmarks, the indelible touch of the devouring mother, are seared into the skin of the child. Stoker’s lesser-read Gothics express Victorian patriarchal gynaecological anx... Read More about The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars.

Evenings at Home in Spiritual Seance By Georgiana Houghton (1881): edited with an introduction and notes by Sara Williams (2013)
Book
(2013). S. Williams (Ed.), Evenings at Home in Spiritual Seance By Georgiana Houghton (1881): edited with an introduction and notes by Sara Williams. Brighton: Victorian Secrets

Spanning the years 1870–1881, Evenings at Home in Spiritual Séance (Second Series) documents the everyday, yet astonishing, experiences of spirit activity within the domestic space of the Victorian parlour. Through the intimacy of her diary-like pros... Read More about Evenings at Home in Spiritual Seance By Georgiana Houghton (1881): edited with an introduction and notes by Sara Williams.

The maternal gaze in the Gothic (2011)
Thesis
Williams, S. (2011). The maternal gaze in the Gothic. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214012

This transdisciplinary thesis excavates the critically-neglected Gothic convention of the maternal tyrant through the theoretical framework of the maternal gaze, recently conceptualised by Alina Luna in Visual Perversity: A Re-articulation of the Mat... Read More about The maternal gaze in the Gothic.