MLA Commons | Horror & Gothic Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/horror-gothic-literature/ Activity feed for the group, Horror & Gothic Literature. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:05:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 470086cd0a1a8b38d1e4f65a10dd2860 Jamil Mustafa started the topic CFP: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, Lewis University, July 30-August 2, 2019 in the discussion Horror & Gothic Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/horror-gothic-literature/forum/topic/cfp-gothic-terror-gothic-horror-lewis-university-july-30-august-2-2019-21/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 17:30:29 -0500 Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Terror ex…[Read more]

]]> 0 bdd7b700c209d043309166d0806c281a Bill Hughes deposited ‘Legally Recognised Undead’: Essence, Difference, and Assimilation in Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead in the group Horror & Gothic Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593272/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:38:57 -0500 Vampire literature since Le Fanu at least has been conspicuously about ‘Otherness’, that crucial term of identity politics, and has thus rendered itself most obligingly to interpretation in terms of those politics—at least, since the rise of that paradigm in cultural analysis, it has been available to be read that way. Appearing deceptively human…[Read more]

]]> 0 a48969725201712d54d9a54693c0e25e Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic Books/Articles Pertaining to Gothic/Horror Literature in the discussion Horror & Gothic Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/horror-gothic-literature/forum/topic/booksarticles-pertaining-to-gothichorror-literature/#post-1015464 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:50:09 -0400 Hi Sarah,

I know there’s a lot of great work out there on this topic, but the first one that comes to mind is The Philosophy of Horror by Noël Carroll.  I’ll update if/when I think of more.

Also- thanks for sharing those titles! I’m excited to check out Thacker’s work.

]]> 0