All Outputs (27)

'Co(s)mic Horror' (2013)
Book Chapter
Murray, C., & Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'Co(s)mic Horror'. In D. Simmons (Ed.), New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft (157-191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137320964_10

H. P. Lovecraft, personally unassuming, hostile to modernity and pessimistic to the last, is perhaps an unlikely author to have inspired a cult global following, yet as Stephen Jones points out, “his relatively small body of work has influenced count... Read More about 'Co(s)mic Horror'.

'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.' (2013)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.'. In A. Heise-Von Der Lippe (Ed.), Dark cartographies: exporing Gothic spaces (61-67). Inter-Disciplinary Press. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880993_008

This is a chapter (5535 words) that has been completed and accepted for a forthcoming collection to be published with Rodopi Press. It is a reading of two Gothic novels. It is completed and has been accepted. No title has been given as yet but the vo... Read More about 'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.'.

William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890 (2013)
Book
Hanson, I. (2013). William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890. Anthem Press

William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856–1890 offers a new reading of Morris’s work, foregrounding his commitment to the idea of transformative violence. Hanson argues, contrary to prevailing critical opinion, that Morris’s work demonstrates an... Read More about William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890.

Thomas Hardy and desire: conceptions of the self (2013)
Book
(2013). Thomas Hardy and desire: conceptions of the self. Palgrave Macmillan

Thomas Hardy and Desire employs a post-Lacanian approach to demonstrate the centrality of desire to Hardy's aesthetic project. Yearning, disappointment, frustration and loss determine the relationship of his characters and poetic personae to the worl... Read More about Thomas Hardy and desire: conceptions of the self.

'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III? (2013)
Journal Article
Kaegi, A. (2013). 'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III?. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2, 91-116. https://doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-2

Shakespeare's residency in London coincided with a period in which the City underwent unprecedented demographic growth and commercial expansion. By the 1590s two thirds to three quarters of the adult males resident in the City were citizens, at the t... Read More about 'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III?.

Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan (2013)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2013). Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan. Women's Writing, 20(1), 64-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2013.754258

This article adopts a literal and metaphorical conceptualization of progeny to explore influence in relation to the works of the novelist and dramatist Frances Sheridan (1724-66) and her youngest daughter Elizabeth Sheridan, afterwards LeFanu (1758-1... Read More about Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan.

'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier (2013)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier. In A. Smith, & W. Hughes (Eds.), EcoGothic (120-133). Manchester University Press

This chapter examines the development of wilderness Gothic through the nineteenth century, looking at responses to the environment in the literary and political imagination. It focuses on Ambrose Bierce, whose Gothic horror tales offer an insight int... Read More about 'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier.