Studies in the Humanities articles from December 2005

Studies in the Humanities archives from December 2005

"A good horror has its place in art": Hardy's gothic strategy in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.(Thomas Hardy)(Critical essay)
December 1, 2005... Thomas Hardy's enduring fascination with things loosely defined as "Gothic"--ruins, graveyards, ghosts, corpses, curses, ancient pagan rituals, and psychic phenomena (1)--is among the most intriguing yet least appreciated aspects of his life...

Mrs. Darling's Scream: the Rites of Persephone in Peter and Wendy and Wuthering Heights.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2005... "All rites of passage are paradoxical. On the one hand, there's the opportunity for personal growth, the promise of transcendence. But there is terror and disintegration, too--deep blows to the ego. No wonder that the day a mother hands off her...

Dying brides: anti-Catholicism and the gothic demonization of fertility.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2005... I 'Tis now the moment still and dread, When Sorcerers use their baleful power; When Graves give up their buried dead To profit by the sanctioned hour. Lewis, "Midnight Hymn," The Monk (1794) From the 1780s and continuing through the...

Matthew Lewis and the gothic horror of obsessional neurosis.(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2005... Initially, it may seem that the only connection between Tony Shalhoub's hit USA Television Network program Monk and the Gothic is reducible to the fact that the television show shares it title with Matthew Lewis's infamous 1794 Gothic novel....

"Wondrous material to play on": Children as sites of Gothic liminality in The Turn of the Screw, the innocents, and the others.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2005... Concerned as Gothic fiction is with various states somewhere in between living and dead, reality and unreality, sanity and insanity, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw offers a seminal text for a study of liminality. (1) As Richard Dilworth...

The Gothic.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... The Gothic, by David Punter and Glennis Byron (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), 315 pp., ISBN 0 631 22063 1. Written by David Punter and Glennis Byron (who previously collaborated on 1999's Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic...

Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003), 310 pp., ISBN 0 87352 907 3. With the increased interest...

The Horror Film.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... The Horror Film, by Peter Hutchings (Pearson-Longman, 2004), pp. 244, ISBN 0 582 43794 6. Peter Hutchings's 2004 The Horror Film is the most recent addition to Pearson-Longman's Inside Film Series, which has contributed such solid film...

Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare, edited by Steven Jay Schneider, 2004), pp. 299, ISBN 0 521 82521. In his 2004 Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare, editor Steven Jay Schneider and his fourteen...