Gothic Peregrinations

Agnieszka Łowczanin is Assistant Professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of Łódź, Poland, where she teaches courses on British literature, culture and history.. Her main areas of academic interest are the diversities and paradoxes of the eighteenth century and the potentialities of Gothic aesthetics in literature and film. She coedited a volume of critical essays, All that Gothic (2014), and published numerous articles on various aspects of the Gothic. Her monograph A Dark Tranfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic is going to be published in 2018. Katarzyna Małecka is Assistant Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Social Sciences, Łódź, Poland, where she teaches courses on American literature and culture. Her main areas of research are death and grief in American poetry and life writing. She is the author of Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell (Cambria Press, 2008) as well as of numerous articles on death and grief in literature and culture. She has been awarded the Fulbright Senior Award Scholarship for the 2017/2018 academic year to work on a research project at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on the use of modern bereavement memoirs in grief therapy. Currently, she is working on a book analyzing the social, cultural, and therapeutic characteristics and applications of modern bereavement memoirs.

• List of ContentsI. The Gothic Mystique: Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and the (Fe)Male Condition Agnieszka Łowczanin "A Romance Fit for the Taste of our Era": Anna Mostowska and the first Polish Gothic stories. Adriana RaducanuUnder the Sign of Gothic: The Goddess Kālī from Mahābhārata to Marguerite Yourcenar’s “Kali Beheaded” Dorota Filipczak The Gothic Excess in "The Albanian Virgin" by Alice Munro Read Against The Broken April by Ismail Kadare Marta Goszczyńska"A Play of Fear and Laughter": Gothic Excesses in A.S. Byatt’s Possession II. Look Now: Gothic in Film Dorota BabilasMonstrosity and Suffering in the Roles of Lon Chaney Raluca AndreescuA Portrait of the Artist as a Vampire in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive III. Little Ones Love to Be Afraid Sandra MillsGrotesque Creations: Brutality, Terror and the Puppet Pinocchio Aleskandra MochockaGothic, Commodities, and Culture: the Monster High Franchise and the Processes of Incorporation and ExcorporationIV. Gothic Spaces Krzysztof MajerDisturbing "the sleep of substance": Nabokov’s and Millhauser’s Haunted Museums Bridget MarshallFright Factories: Nineteenth-Century Industrial Gothic Joanna KokotA Criminal Intrigue in a Gothic Scenery: Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr V. Gothic Monstrosities Stephen OravecMonstrous Educators: The Wendol of Michael Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead Zofia KolbuszewskaH. P. Lovecraft, Horrific Creation, and Post-humanism VI. Transgressing Boundaries and Crossing Borders Eva ČoupkováGothic Elements in the Novel Valérie a týden divů by Vítězslav Nezval Krzysztof KoseckiLife, Politics, Science, and Art: Poe’s "Raven" and Its Re-interpretations by Sastre, Witkiewicz, and Pleijel Katarzyna MałeckaStranger than Fiction: Gothic Themes in Bereavement Memoirs of Spousal Loss