Thanks to everyone for coming! I’m put up my bibliography here so that you can find the books I’m talking about! If I missed anything, ask in the comments. Also, if you have any other recommendations, do share them below with each other! 🙂
Primary Texts
Anne Bronte – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – 1848
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre – 1847
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights – 1847
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Christabel – 1816
Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White – 1859
T. J. Horsley Curties – Ethelwina,; Or The House of Fitz-Auburne – 1799
Charlotte Dacre – Zofloya; Or, The Moor – 1806
Daphne Du Maurier – Jamaica Inn – 1936
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca – 1938
Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth – 1921
Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades – 1926
Georgette Heyer – The Corinthian – 1940
Georgette Heyer – The Quiet Gentleman – 1951
Victoria Holt – The Mistress of Mellyn – 1960
Matthew Lewis – The Monk – 1796
Charles Lucas – The Castle of Saint Donats; Or, The History of Jack Smith – 1798
William Polidori – ‘The Vampyre’ – 1819
Ann Radcliffe – The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne – 1789
Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho – 1794
Clara Reeve – The Old English Baron – 1778
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus – 1818/1831
John Stagg – The Vampyre – 1810
- L. Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – 1886
Bram Stoker – Dracula – 1897
Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto – 1764
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Grey – 1890
I’ve only included texts I directly used or quoted from in the Secondary text section as literally hundreds went into the making of this lecture! Any questions about recommendations – feel free to ask!
The missing reference (the quote on working women’s romance) is from an edited collection which is coming out later this year. It’s my own work.
Secondary Texts
Joseph Crawford – The Twilight of the Gothic – 2014
Joan Forbes – ‘Anti-Romantic Discourse as Resistance: Women’s Fiction 1775-1820’ in Romance Revisited – 1995
Holly Hirst – ‘Gothic Romance’ in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic – 2020
David Hume – Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion – 1742
Richard Hurd – Letters on Chivalry and Romance – 1762
Lori A. Paige – The Gothic Romance Wave – 2018
Joanna Russ – ‘Somebody’s Trying to Kill me and I Think it’s My Husband: The Modern Gothic’ in Journal of Popular Culture – 6:4 – 1973
Peter Thorslev – The Byronic Hero: Types and Prototypes – 1962
Silly little, lovely little stories 