Gothic

The focus of this essay is ‘on excavating short fiction built around representation of frontier conflict’ (33). The short fictions of colonial frontier violence ‘seem…

‘This essay traces the recent scholarship on the prominence of a Gothic sensibility in Australian literary and cinema cultures, and argues that theatre has somehow…

The article presents a critical overview of Carmel Bird’s writing, particularly her four major novels. Suggesting that there is a continuity of pattern, theme and…

As a feminist Qovel of self-discovery, Dreamhouse works within a framework of realism, put also draws on the codes and conventions of a number of…

McCann analyses the representations of the colonial unconscious and the Romantic imagination—the intersection of affect and aesthetics—in the writing of Marcus Clarke.

The dynamics of what might be called colonial Gothic, by which I mean the Gothicizing of the settler-colony as a site of repression, also anticipate…

Examines the presentation of colonialism in some of Praed’s work, in particular in her novel Fugitive Anne with its fantasy of the lost Lemurians.

Both Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Clarke’s ‘The Mystery of Major Molineux’ (1881) appear to have influenced a…

The Gothic lends itself to critical examinations of disabled embodiment yet this genre has ‘hitherto been largely ignored’ by disability studies scholars (Gregory 291). This…