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“The female vampire exemplifies fears of the non-heterosexual reproduction of women—the literal rejection of mankind. As the criminologist Cesare Lombroso claimed in an 1896 account of prostitution, ‘Woman being naturally and organically monogamous and frigid, love is for her a voluntary slavery’. Such fears were actualized in the ‘New Woman’ of the mid-1890s: women who smoked, dressed casually, rode bicycles, educated themselves, and pursued careers, seemingly oblivious of spousal and maternal responsibilities.”
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
“The sublime signals the limits of rationality—the ‘sleep’ of reason—and was best communicated by obscurity. So in the same spirit as the recipes ‘to make a romance’, ‘seven types of obscurity’ could be proposed for a Gothic novel:”
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
“If the Gothic is as relevant today as it has been for the past millennium and a half”
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
“While it could be argued that American Gothic today (such as the Batman franchise; see Figure 10) is primarily a response to the political indifference”
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
“Consumer society could only be described in ghostly terms—”
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
― The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
