The Sublime and the Domestic: Structures of Mediation in the Gothic
Incorporating the Sublime
primary excerpts:
Edmund Burke, "Of the passions which belong
to SELF-PRESERVATION"
Ann Radcliffe, Romance of the Forest
Edmund Burke, "Of the SUBLIME"
secondary excerpts:
Marshall Brown, "A Philosophical View of the
Gothic Novel."
David Morris, on Freud's "The Uncanny'"
Theorizing the Gothic Sublime
primary excerpts:
Ann Radcliffe, Romance of the Forest
secondary excerpts:
David Morris, "Gothic Sublimity"
Vijay Mishra, The Gothic Sublime
The Marquis de Sade, "Idee sur les Romans"
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "The Structure of
Gothic Convention"
Domesticating the Sublime
primary excerpts:
Addison, The Spectator 110 (July 6,
1711)
Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto
Mary Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
secondary excerpts:
Robert F. Geary, "Ann Radcliffe: The Aura of
the Numinous"
Cannon Schmitt, "Techniques of Terror"
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Towards the Gothic:
Terrorism and Homosexual Panic."
George Haggerty, "Literature and Homosexuality
in the Late Eighteenth Century"
"Unspeakable" Desire
primary excerpts:
Matthew Lewis, The Monk
secondary excerpts:
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Towards the Gothic:
Terrorism and Homosexual Panic."
George Haggerty, "Literature and Homosexuality
in the Late Eighteenth Century"