McGill University
School of Architecture
ARCH 541: Selected Topics in Architecture 2
3 credits
Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Time: 10:05–11:55
Room: 212 MDHAR
Instructor: Dr. Cameron Macdonell
Office: 309 MDHAR
Office Hours: By Appointment
Course Topic for Summer 2013:
UNCANNY NORTHERN ARCHE-TEXT
The long winter of the North forces the Goth ... to find sources of happiness in
foul weather....
––John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, vol. II
Uncanny Northern Arche-text is a course that encourages students to grapple with the
aesthetic conditions of the uncanny. It builds on Sigmund Freud’s famous essay of 1919, Das
Unheimliche, translated into English as “The Uncanny.” Freud was interested in the aesthetic
experience of the uncanny because the German word unheimlich is not simply the opposite of
das heimlich, the “homely.” Rather, “heimlich is a word the meaning of which develops in the
direction of ambivalence, until it finally coincides with its opposite, unheimlich.” The un of
unheimlich designates the repression of something to make das heimlich seem homely, and the
aesthetic sensation of das unheimlich is the discovery that repression has been haunting the
home all along. It reveals the homely to be “un-homely.” This course of lecture topics will
consequently explore the architectural possibilities of the un-homely haunting architecture’s
sense of house and home.
The course title of Uncanny Northern Arche-text calls attention to the problematic translation
of Freud’s text into English. Das unheimlich and the uncanny are not perfectly synonymous.
Nicholas Royle has demonstrated that the English words canny/uncanny experience a slippage
comparable to Freud’s heimlich/unheimlich, but the English translation effaces the
architectural possibilities of Freud’s study. There is nothing explicitly architectural about the
words “canny” or “uncanny.” This has not been a problem for literary theorists, like Royle,
who draw upon Freud’s essay in terms of literary aesthetics. After all, Freud’s exploration of
das unheimlich was the discovery of a “remote” province that borders psychoanalytic and
literary discourse. But by that same token, Royle insists that the uncanny belongs to no
discourse: “If it belongs, it is no longer a question of the uncanny.” Thus, Uncanny Northern
Arche-text is an exploration of architectural discourse as it borders an uncanny hinterland that
does not belong to philosophy, psychoanalysis, architecture, or literature. The lecture topics
rather draw upon philosophical, psychoanalytic, and literary paradigms of the uncanny as
leverage to uncover the un-canniness of architecture.
Anthony Vidler and Mark Wigley have already engaged the un-canniness of architecture in a
general sense. This course will use “Gothic” as a specific watchword for the exploration of
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architecture’s uncanny hinterlands. Furthermore, as a quintessentially Northern style for both
Europe and North America, Gothic architecture situates those hinterlands somewhere in a
quasi-mythical North of forests and savagery, ice and snow. Gothic literature has long been
held as the standard of textual un-canniness, but the shared “Gothic” signifier raises questions
about the un-canniness of modern Gothic architecture in the North—not simply the domestic
houses erected in the name of a Gothic Revival that made various people feel at home in their
domesticity. The Gothic adjective also raises questions about how people feel at home in the
house of God or the playhouse or the courthouse or the statehouse. And these various “houses”
are only explicit examples of buildings in which at least some people are meant to feel at home.
What has been repressed in any architectural use of the Gothic? You are encouraged to
explore the un-canniness of the Gothic in a specific building or select set of buildings with a
Northern connection, whether built or merely planned, real or fictitious. But your explorations
of Uncanny Northern Arche-text need not be limited to the Gothic. Gothic literature may be
the standard for the textual uncanny, but any religious text may be read uncannily into the
architecture of any house of worship, any play into any playhouse, the law into any
courthouse, and acts of government into any state house or parliamentary complex of houses.
Conversely, the architecture of any church house might render scripture uncanny, or the
playhouse might render the play uncanny, and so on. Ultimately, because the uncanny belongs
neither to architecture nor literature, each haunts the other in myriad ways to be explored
through historical research and applied to contemporary practice.
Summary of Course Requirements:
Class Participation
Project Proposal
Final Presentation & Term Paper
20%
20%
60%
Description of Course Requirements:
Project Proposal: You will present a five-minute project proposal during class time (May 21 or
23). The proposal must identify the building(s) to be studied in pursuit of the term paper. It
must also identify the textual body that renders the chosen architecture uncanny, or vice versa.
It must identify the methodological lens through which an understanding of the uncanny is to
be built, and it must identify the comprehensive body of research to be used in exploring the
un-canniness of the chosen architecture. Five minutes will be given at the end of each proposal
for the other students and the instructor to provide feedback on the prospective project.
Final Presentation & Term Paper: You will present a working draft of your paper, about twenty
minutes in length (June 18 or 20). The draft must present a clear thesis concerning the chosen
architecture, and it must develop a textual synthesis between the comparative literature, the
substantiating research, and your original contributions toward the study of your chosen
architecture. It must then arrive at persuasive conclusions about the un-canniness of the
architecture under study. Ten minutes will be given at the end of each presentation for the
other students and the instructor to give final suggestions to refine the paper. You will then
submit a finished paper to my office (June 25). The paper should not exceed ten type-written,
double-spaced pages (including foot/endnotes, but excluding references or illustrations), with
a twelve-point font and one-inch margins on all sides. All citations must be consistently
formatted, and all illustrations must be clearly labelled. Part of the term paper grade will be
based on your ability to integrate the suggestions given during the final presentation phase. All
late papers are subject to a 10% penalty per day, starting at midnight of the due date.
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COURSE SCHEDULE & CONTENT
May 7
NORTHERN FRIGHTS: UNCANNY GOTHIC ETYMOLOGIES
Readings:
Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (1919) in the Standard Edition of the
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. xvii, James
Strachey, trans. (London: Hogarth, 1953), 219–52.
Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern
Unhomely (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992), especially 3–44.
Suggested Further Readings:
Samuel Kliger, “The ‘Goths’ in England: An Introduction to the Gothic
Vogue in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Discussion,” Modern Philology
43 (1945), 107–17.
E.S. de Beer, “Gothic: Origin and Diffusion of the Term; the Idea of Style
in Architecture,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11
(1948), 143–62.
Mark Wigley, The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993), especially 97–147.
Robin Sowerby, “The Goths in History and the Pre-Gothic Gothic” in A
Companion to the Gothic, David Punter, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000),
15–26.
May 9
QUEER COLLECTIVES: WALPOLE’S AND BECKFORD’S GOTHIC INHERITANCE
Readings:
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764), with an Introduction by
E.J. Clery, W.S. Lewis, ed., Oxford World Classics Series (New York:
Oxford UP, 1998), especially vii–xxxiii, 1–38.
Whitney Davis, “Queering Family Romance in Collecting Visual
Culture,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Culture 17 (2011), 309–
29.
Suggested Further Readings:
William Beckford, History of the Caliph Vathek, Reverend Samuel
Henley, trans. (London: J. Johnson, 1786).
Diane S. Ames, “Strawberry Hill: Architecture of the ‘As If,’” Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture VIII (1979), 351–63.
John Wilton-Ely, “The Genesis and Evolution of Fonthill Abbey,”
Architectural History 23 (1980), 40–51, 172–80.
Max Fincher, Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age: The Penetrating Eye
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 3–86.
May 14
ORNAMENT AND CHYME: PUGIN’S GOTHIC TASTE
Readings:
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance; Interspersed with
Some Pieces of Poetry (London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794), especially
vol. ii, chapter v.
Ron Jelaco, “Faith and Reason: A.W.N. Pugin’s Apprehension of the
Mysteries,” True Principles 4 (2010–11), 150–62.
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Suggested Further Readings:
A.W.N. Pugin, Contrasts, 2nd ed. (London: Charles Dolman, 1841).
A.W.N. Pugin, A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts (London:
Charles Dolman, 1851), 1–13, 76–124.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “The Character in the Veil: Imagery in the
Surface of the Gothic Novel,” PMLA 96 (1981), 255–70.
Rosemary Hill, “Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin: A Biographical
Sketch” in A.W.N. Pugin: Master of the Gothic Revival, Paul Atterbury,
ed. (New Haven: Yale UP, 1995), 31–44.
May 16
INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC: RUSKIN’S SPECTRAL CAPITAL
Readings:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
(London: Lackington et al., 1818), especially chapter xxiv.
John Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic” in The Stones of Venice, vol. 2 (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1977), 138–212.
Suggested Further Readings/Viewing:
Kenneth Branagh (director), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Hollywood:
TriStar Pictures, 1994).
Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of
Mourning, and the New International, Peggy Kamuf, trans. (New York:
Routledge, 1994), 125–76.
Paulette Singley, “Devouring Architecture: Ruskin’s Insatiable
Grotesque,” Assemblage 32 (1997), 108–25.
Chris Brooks, “Ruskin and the Politics of Gothic” in Ruskin and
Architecture, Geoff Brandwood and Rebecca Daniels, eds (Reading: Spire
Books, 2003), 166–78.
May 21
PROJECT PROPOSALS I (This session is scheduled to be three hours long)
May 23
PROJECT PROPOSALS II (This session is scheduled to be three hours long)
May 28
CLASS IS CANCELLED FOR CONVOCATION
May 30
RALPH ADAMS CRAM: AN ANGLO-AMERICAN HAUNTED BY THE GOTHICK
Readings:
Ralph Adams Cram, Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories
(Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895), especially 3–32, 83–114.
Ralph Adams Cram, “Gothic Ascendency” (1905) in The Gothic Quest
(New York: Baker & Taylor, 1907), 53–75.
Suggested Further Readings:
Patrick Brantlinger, The Rule of Darkness: British Literature and
Imperialism, 1830–1914 (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988), 227–54.
Michael Hall, “The Rise of Refinement: G.F. Bodley’s All Saints’,
Cambridge, and the Return to English Models in Gothic Architecture of
the 1860s,” Architectural History 36 (1993), 103–26.
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Stefan Dziemianowicz, “Introduction” in Black Spirits and White: A Book
of Ghost Stories, by Ralph Adams Cram (Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2004),
v–xxi.
Cameron Macdonell, “’If You Want To, You Can Cure Me’: Duplicity and
the Edwardian Patron,” Journal of the Society for the Study of
Architecture in Canada 31 (2006), 23–36.
June 4
HYPER-BOREAL GOTHIC: CON(I)FERRING THE CANADIAN SUBJECT
Readings:
John Richardson, Wacousta; or, the Prophecy (1832), edited by Donald
R. Cronk (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1987), especially vol i, chapter
ii.
Douglas Scott Richardson, “Hyperborean Gothic; or, Wilderness
Ecclesiology and the Wooden Churches of Edward Medley,” Architectura
11 (1972), 48–74.
Suggested Further Readings:
William Hay, “Architecture for the Meridian of Canada” (1853) in
Documents in Canadian Architecture, Geoffrey Simmins, ed.
(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1992), 51–8.
Noel Elizabeth Currie, “From Walpole to the New World: Legitimation
and the Gothic in Richardson’s Wacousta,” Hungarian Journal of English
and American Studies 6 (2000), 145–59.
Justin D. Edwards, Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National
Literature (Calgary: University of Alberta Press, 2005), especially 1–25.
Cynthia Sugars, “Canadian Gothic” in A New Companion to the Gothic,
David Punter, ed. (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 409–27.
June 6
WHITE-WASHING GUILT: AMERICAN COLONIAL GOTHIC
Reading/Viewing:
Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in The Sketch Book
of Geoffrey Crayon, vol. 2 (New York: C.S. van Winckle, 1820), 307–76.
Tim Burton (director), Sleepy Hollow (Hollywood: Paramount Pictures,
1999).
Suggested Further Readings:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance
(Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1851).
Renée L. Bergland, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American
Subjects (Hanover: UP of New England, 2000), 1–25, 111–58.
Jodey Castricano, Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida’s
Ghost Writing (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2001), 54–71.
W. Scott Poole, Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the
Hideous and the Haunting (Waco: Baylor UP, 2011), 53–80.
June 11
BATMAN’S GOTHAM AND ARKHAM: AN UNCANNY AMERICAN METROPOLIS
Readings:
Grant Morrison and Dave McKean, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on
Serious Earth (New York: DC Comics, 1989).
Guerric Debona, “The Canon and Cultural Studies: Culture and Anarchy
in Gotham City,” Journal of Film and Video 49 (1997), 52–65.
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Suggested Further Readings/Viewings:
Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (New York: DC Comics,
1986).
Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, Batman: Year One (New York: DC
Comics, 1987).
Alan Moore and Brian Bolland, Batman: The Killing Joke (New York: DC
Comics, 1988).
Tim Burton (director), Batman (Hollywood: Warner Bros., 1989).
Andreas Reichstein, “Batman—An American Mr. Hyde?” American
Studies 43 (1998), 329–50.
Siobhan Fitzgerald, “Holy Morality, Batman!” Building Material 12
(2004), 70–73.
Chris Nolan (director), Batman Begins (Hollywood: Warner Bros., 2005).
June 13
ALIENATIONS: THE FINAL FRONTIERS OF FILM
Reading/Viewing:
Matthijs van Heijningen (director), The Thing (Hollywood: Universal
Pictures, 2011).
Elizabeth Leane, “Locating the Thing: The Antarctic as Alien Space in
John W. Campbell’s ‘Who Goes There?’” Science Fiction Studies 32
(2005), 225–39.
Suggested Further Readings/Viewings:
John W. Campbell, Jr. (as Don A. Stuart), Who Goes There? (Chicago:
Shasta, 1948).
Ridley Scott (director), Alien (Hollywood: Twentieth Century Fox, 1979).
John Carpenter (director), The Thing (Hollywood: Universal Pictures,
1982).
Lynda Zwinger, “Blood Relations: Feminist Theory Meets the Uncanny
Alien Bug Mother,” Hypatia 7 (1992), 74–90.
Michael A. Katovich and Patrick T. Kinkade, “The Stories Told in Science
Fiction and Social Science: Reading ‘The Thing’ and Other Remakes from
Two Eras,” The Sociological Quarterly 34 (1993), 619–37.
Valdine Clemens, The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from The
Castle of Otranto to Alien (Albany: State University of New York Press,
1999).
June 18
FINAL PRESENTATIONS I & II (Each session is scheduled to be three hours long)
June 20
FINAL PRESENTATIONS III & IV (Each session is scheduled to be three hours long)
June 25
TERM PAPERS ARE DUE
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ADDITIONAL READINGS
THE UNCANNY:
Bearn, Gordon C.F. 1993. “Wittgenstein and the Uncanny.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary
Journal 76: 29–58.
Bernstein, Susan. 2003. “It Walks: The Ambulatory Uncanny.” MLN 118: 1111–39.
Bloomer, Jennifer. 1993. Architecture and the Text: The Scrypts of Joyce and Piranesi. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
Boscaljon, Daniel. 2013. Resisting the Place of Belonging: Uncanny Homecomings in Religion,
Narrative, and the Arts. Burlington: Ashgate.
Brown, Sarah Annes. 2012. A Familiar Compound Ghost: Allusion and the Uncanny.
Manchester: University of Manchester Press.
Castle, Terry. 1995. The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention
of the Uncanny. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Collins, Joe, and John Jervis. 2008. Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cline, Ann. 1997. A Hut of One’s Own: Life outside the Circle of Architecture. Cambridge: MIT
Press.
Cixous, Hélène. 1976. “Fiction and Its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud’s Das Unheimliche (The
Uncanny).” New Literary History 7: 525–48, 619–45.
Derrida, Jacques. 1978. “Freud and the Scene of Writing.” In Writing and Difference, Alan
Bass, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
––––––. 1981. “The Double Session.” In Dissemination, Barbara Johnson, trans. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
––––––. 1986. Glas, John P. Leavy Jr. and Richard Rand, trans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press.
––––––. 1987. “To Speculate—On Freud.” In The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and
Beyond, Alan Bass, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
––––––. 1992. Acts of Literature, Derek Attridge, ed., Geoffrey Bennington & Rachel Bowlby,
trans. New York: Routledge.
Elferen, Isabella van. 2012. Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny. Cardiff: University of
Wales Press.
Gross, Kenneth. 2011. Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Heidegger, Martin. 1959. An Introduction to Metaphysics, Ralph Mannheim, trans. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
Heynen, Hilde, and Gulsum Baydar. 2005. Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of
Gender in Modern Architecture. New York: Routledge.
Jentsch, Ernst. 1996. “On the Psychology of the Uncanny” (1906). Angelika 2: 7–17.
Johnson, Laurie Ruth. 2010. Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and
Culture. New York: Rudopi.
Jonte-Pace, Diane E. 2001. Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny
Mother in Freud’s Cultural Texts. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Kligerman, Eric. 2007. Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity, and the Visual Arts.
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Krell, David Farrell. 1992. “Das Unheimliche: Architectural Sections of Heidegger and Freud.”
Research in Phenomenology 22: 48–61.
Kristeva, Julia. 1982. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Leon S. Roudiez, trans. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Linville, Susan E. 2004. History Films, Women, and Freud’s Uncanny. Austen: University of
Texas Press.
Lovink, Geert. 2002. Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia. Cambridge:
MIT Press.
Luft, Sandra Rudnick. 2003. Vico’s Uncanny Humanism: Reading the New Science between
Modernism and Postmodernism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Masschelein, Anneleen. 2011. The Unconcept: The Freudian Uncanny in Late-TwentiethCentury Theory. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Mori, Masahiro. 2012. “The Uncanny Valley” (1970), K.F. MacDorman and N. Kageki, trans.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine 19(2): 98–100.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1968. “The Will to Power.” In Science, Nature, Society, and Art, Walter
Kaufmann and R.J. Hollindale, trans. New York: Random House.
Potts, John, and Edward Scheer. 2007. Technologies of Magic: A Cultural Study of Ghosts, the
Machine, and the Uncanny. London: Turnaround.
Robinson, Lisa, and Gail Tuttle. 2007. Marlene Macculum: The Architectural Uncanny. Corner
Brook: Sir Walter Grenfell College Art Gallery.
Royle, Nicholas. 2003. The Uncanny: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University
Press.
––––––. 2009. In Memory of Jacques Derrida. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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Schelling, Friedrich W.J von. 1996. Philosophie der Mythologie (1856). Stuttgart: FrommannHolzboog.
Simms, Eva-Maria. 1996. “Uncanny Dolls: Images of Death in Rilke and Freud.” New Literary
History 27: 663–77.
Spadoni, Robert. 2007. Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the
Horror Genre. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Todd, Jane Marie. 1986. “The Veiled Women in Freud’s ‘Das Unheimliche.’” Signs 11: 519–28.
Trigg, Dylan. 2012. The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny. Athens: Ohio
University Press.
Vidler, Anthony. 1987. “The Architecture of the Uncanny: The Unhomely Houses of the
Romantic Sublime.” Assemblage 3: 6–29.
Weber, Samuel. 1973. “The Sideshow, or Remarks on a Canny Moment.” MLN 88: 1102–33.
GOTHIC LITERATURE:
Bailey, Dale. 1999. American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular
Culture. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
Berthin, Christine. 2010. Gothic Hauntings: Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Beville, Maria. 2009. Gothic Postmodernism: Voicing the Terror of Postmodernity. New York:
Rudopi.
Bloom, Clive. 2010. Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present. New York:
Continuum.
Botting, Fred. 1996. Gothic. New York: Routledge.
––––––, ed. 2001. The Gothic. London: D.S. Brewer.
Briggs, Julia. 1977. Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story. London: Faber.
Brown, Marshall. 2004. The Gothic Text. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Bruhm, Steven. 1994. Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction. Philadelphia:
University of Philadelphia Press.
Byron, Glennis, and David Punter. 2004. The Gothic. Oxford: Blackwell.
Carpenter, Lynette, and Wendy Kolmar, eds. 1994. Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist
Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press.
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Cavallaro, Dani. 2002. The Gothic Vision: Three Centuries of Horror, Terror, and Fear . New
York: Continuum.
Clery, E.J. 1995. The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Creed, Barbara. 1993. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. New York:
Routledge.
Davenport-Hines, Richard. 1998. Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and
Ruin. London: Fourth Estate.
Davison, Carol Margaret. 2009. History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1764–1824. Cardiff:
University of Wales Press.
Day, William Patrick. 1985. In the Circles of Fear and Desire: A Study of Gothic Fantasy.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Delamotte, Eugenia. 1990. Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Docherty, Brian, ed. 1990. American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King.
Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Dryden, Linda. 2003. The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles: Stevenson, Wilde, and Wells.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Duggett, Tom. 2010. Gothic Romanticism: Architecture, Politics, and Literary Form.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ellis, Kate Ferguson. 1989. The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic
Ideology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Ellis, Markman. 2000. The History of Gothic Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Frankl, Paul. 1960. The Gothic: Literary Sources and Interpretations through Eight Centuries.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Gamer, Michael. 2000. Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Garrett, Peter K. 2003. Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Goldhill, Simon. 2011. Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Grimes, Hilary. 2011. Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny, and Scenes of
Writing. Burlington: Ashgate.
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Grixti, Joseph. 1989. Terrors of Uncertainty: The Cultural Contexts of Horror Fiction. New
York: Routledge.
Haggerty, George E. 2006. Queer Gothic. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Halberstam, Judith. 1995. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters.
Durham: Duke University Press.
Hendershot, Cyndy. 1998. The Animal within: Masculinity and the Gothic. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press.
Hennelly, Mark. 2001. “Framing the Gothic: From Pillars to Post-Structuralism.” College
Literature 28: 68–87.
Hieland, Donna. 2004. Gothic and Gender: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hoeveler, Diane Long. 2010. Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European
Imaginary, 1780–1820. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Hogle, Jerrold E. 2002. The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Horner, Avril, ed. 2002. European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange, 1760–1960. Manchester:
Manchester University Press.
Howells, Coral Ann. 1978. Love, Mystery, and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction. London:
Athlone.
Hughes, William, and Andrew Smith, eds. 2009. Queering the Gothic. Manchester:
Manchester University Press.
Hurley, Kelly. 1996. The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de
Siècle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kerr, Howard, and John William Crowley, eds. 1983. The Haunted Dusk: American
Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Kileen, Jarath. 2009. History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1825–1914. Cardiff: University
of Wales Press.
Kilgour, Maggie. 1995. The Rise of the Gothic Novel. London: Methuen.
Lévy, Maurice. 1968. Le Roman “Gothique” Anglais, 1764-1824. Toulouse: Faculté des Lettres
et Sciences Humaines.
Lloyd-Smith, Allan. 1989. Uncanny American Fiction. London: Macmillan
––––––. 2004. American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction. London: Continuum.
MacAndrew, Elizabeth. 1979. The Gothic Tradition in Fiction. New York: Columbia University
Press.
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Martin, Robert K., and Eric Savoy, eds. 1998. The American Gothic: New Interventions in a
National Narrative. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Mighall, Robert. 1999. A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History’s
Nightmares. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Miles, Robert. 1993. Gothic Writing, 1750–1820: A Genealogy. New York: Routledge.
––––––. 1995. Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress. Manchester: Manchester University
Press.
Mishra, Vijay. 1987. The Gothic Sublime. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Morrissey, Lee. 1999. From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British
Literature, 1660–1760. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Napier, Elizabeth R. 1987. The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an EighteenthCentury Form. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
O’Malley, Patrick. 2006. Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Palmer, Paulina. 2012. The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic. Cardiff:
University of Wales Press.
Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth. 1999. “Anachrony and Anatopia: Spectres of Marx, Derrida, and
Gothic Fiction.” In Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History, Peter Buse and
Andrew Stott, eds. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Punter, David. 1996. The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the
Present Day, 2nd ed., rev. London: Longman.
———. 1998. Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body, and the Law. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
———, and Glennis Byron. 2004. The Gothic. Oxford: Blackwell.
Purves, Maria. 2009. The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange, and the
Popular Novel, 1785–1829. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
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––––––. 1914. The Ministry of Art. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
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Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
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Kowsky, Francis R. 1980. The Architecture of Frederick Clarke Withers. Middletown: Wesleyan
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Stein, Roger B. 1967. John Ruskin and Aesthetic Thought in America, 1840-1900. Cambridge:
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