Happy 185th wedding anniversary to Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm.
Source: Lit Hub, September 22, 2020
By Dan Sheehan
On this day in 1835, history’s most macabre literary lovebirds ghouled their way to Baltimore City Hall to file for a marriage...
Eros at Play — Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint...
Source: Aeon
A woman rests in a field surrounded by apple trees. Savouring the sounds and smells of the shaded grove, she muses on the ‘sacred recess’ of her idyllic surroundings,...
Literary movements and periods
Source: Literalism
Literature constantly evolves as new movements emerge to speak to the concerns of different groups of people and historical periods.
Middle English (c.1066-1500): The transitional period between Anqlo-Saxon...
Sarah Moss’s “Ghost Wall,” a Slender Novel That Evokes Existential Dread
Originally published on January 5, 2019 on The New Yorker
By —Margaret Talbot
The British writer Sarah Moss’s new novel, “Ghost Wall,” which is out this month in the U.S., compresses large and...
Believing in Literature
Source: London Review of Books AUGUST 3, 2020
THE RELATION BETWEEN belief and making is a troubled one. Anybody who has ever banged their fists on the table in an...
On the Evolution of Female-Driven Gothic Narratives: A Reading List
Source: Literary Hub
Christine Mangan Recommends Fiction that Honors and Upholds the Genre’s Enduring Legacy
I can still recall reading my first Gothic novel, even all these years later. It was...
The Later Romantics
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When Dracula Author Bram Stoker Wrote a Gushing Fan Letter to Walt Whitman (1870)
Source: Open Culture
Every artist starts out as a fan, and in general we see the marks of early fandom on their mature work. The best, after all—as figures from...
Gothic Novel
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gothic novel, European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries.
Called Gothic because its imaginative...