Further reading

Online

Discovering Literature: Gothic, British Library

The Gothic: Overview. Norton Anthology of English Literature

A Timeline of Gothic Fiction. BBC

Gothic Fiction Bookshelf Project Gutenberg. Links to online copies of prominent Gothic Texts.

Print - General

Marshall Brown, The Gothic Text (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (New York; London: Methuen, 1998)

David Punter, A Companion to the Gothic (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)

David Stevens, The Gothic Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000)

Print – Text Specific

Northanger Abbey

Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, The Cambridge companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Ellen Moody “People that marry can never part”: An Intertextual Reading of Northanger Abbey Persuasions Online V.31, No.1 (Winter 2010)

Elsie G. Holzwarth American Gothic: Edgar Allan Poe in the Shadows of Northanger Abbey Persuasions Online V.31, No.1 (Winter 2010)

Elisabeth Widmark Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, an unlikely Gothic heroine

Frankenstein

The secondary literature on Frankenstein is vast and continues to expand. A good place to start is with modern editions of the novel, which will recommend and/or include critical reading. Two particularly useful texts are the Norton Critical edition, edited by the John Paul Hunter:

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein : the 1818 text, contexts, nineteenth-century responses, criticism, John Paul Hunter (ed.) (New York ; London : Norton, 1996)

and the Broadview edition, edited by D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf:

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus ; the 1818 version, D.L. Macdonald & Kathleen Scherf (eds) (Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 2004)

David Higgins, Frankenstein: Character Studies (Continuum, 2008)

Timothy Morton (ed.), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Routledge, 2002)

Nicholas Marsh, Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (Palgrave, 2009)

Berthold Schoene-Harwood, Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: A Readers Guide to Essential Criticism (Palgrave, 2000)

Jane Eyre

Imperialism, reform, and the making of Englishness in Jane Eyre, Sue Thomas, (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

100 Best Novels: Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Robert McCrum, Guardian

Jane Eyre and the Nineteenth Century Woman, Sally Shuttleworth, British Library

In A Glass Darkly

Catherine Mary Tingle, Symptomatic writings : prefigurations of Freudian theories and models of the mind in the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins and George Eliot (Leeds, 2000)

Eds Helen Conrad-O'Briain & Julie Anne Stevens, The ghost story from the middle ages to the 20th century : a ghostly genre (Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2010)

G.W. Crawford, J. Rockhill, B.J. Showers (eds) Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on Sheridan Le Fanu (London: Hippocampus Press, 2011)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robert Hitchens, The Green Carnation (1894; London: Robin Clark, 1992). This is a satirical novel that was originally published anonymously. The green carnation of the title refers to the flower that Wilde invented and famously wore. Wilde and his entourage first exhibited the green carnation at the opening night of his play Lady Windermere’s Fan in 1892.

Kelly J. Mays, How the Victorians Un-Invented Themselves: Architecture, the Battle of the Styles, and the History of the Term Victorian, in Journal of Victorian Culture, 19:1, April 2014, pp. 1-23.

Robert Mighall A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History’s Nightmares (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891; London: Unicorn Press, 1948).

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898; Poole: Woodstock, 1995). In this book Wilde details the time he spent in Reading jail following his imprisonment. During his incarceration, and whilst writing his ballad, Wilde tried to view the experience as a new form of the aesthetic. His main disappointment at being found guilty of ‘gross indecency’ was that he had been found guilty for what he was, rather than for anything he had done.

Oscar Wilde, Art and Decoration: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies (London: Methuen and Co., 1920)

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Art, Ethics and the Artist

Perversion and Degeneracy in the Picture of Dorian Gray

 The modern gothic and literary doubles : Stevenson, Wilde, and Wells, Linda Dryden, (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

John Sloane, Oscar Wilde (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003)