Gothic Studies Journal

Gothic Studies

ISSN1362-7937

Editor: Emily Alder, Edinburgh Napier University

Associate Editor: Timothy Jones, University of Stirling

Reviews Editors: Maisha Wester, Indiana University Bloomington (North America); Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK and Europe)

Editorial Assistant: Frances Thielman, Texas A&M University

First published in 1999, Gothic Studies is the refereed journal of the International Gothic Association. The journal currently appears twice each year, and will soon move to publishing three times each year. It publishes a mixture of general issues and guest-edited specials. Gothic Studies also includes a regular reviews feature, occasional interviews with significant figures in Gothic, calls for papers and conference announcements. This is the foremost academic publication exclusively devoted to the field of Gothic, and it thus represents essential reading for students and teachers of the genre.

Contributors and guest editors over the past ten years have included Jerrold E. Hogle, Robert Miles, Benjamin F. Fisher, David Punter, Fred Botting, Neil Cornwell, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Steven Bruhm, Anne Williams, Michelle Massé, Carol A. Senf, Lisa Hopkins, Andrew Smith, Jeffrey N. Cox, Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik, Gina Wisker, Eugenia DeLamotte, Paulina Palmer, Jason Haslam, Scott Brewster, George E. Haggerty, Catherine Spooner, Manuel Aguirre, Stephen Shapiro, China Miéville and Anne Rice. Gothic Studies aims to publish cutting-edge work by both established scholars and more recent entrants to the field.

Special issues have been produced on a wide range of Gothic authors, periods and national traditions. These have included guest-edited editions on Monstrosity and Anthropology, Romanticism and the ‘New Gothic’, Reanimating Gothic Drama, Gothic Cults and Gothic Cultures, Postcolonial Gothic, Female Gothic, Queering Gothic Films, Italy and the Gothic, Gothic in Contemporary Popular Culture, Postfeminist Gothic and Material Gothic. Gothic Studies is especially interested in commissioning special issues which expand or question the existing boundaries of the genre.

Writing and editing for Gothic Studies

Gothic Studies invites two types of submissions from its readers. The journal will publish articles on any period, national tradition, or topic within the Gothic in general issues. Potential contributors should be aware that there is likely to be a delay between commissioning and publication. The journal also commissions special issues from qualified guest-editors, who are responsible for drafting a call for papers, for the initial moderation process, and for the editing and introduction of the final volume. Potential guest editors should contact the Editor, Emily Alder (gothiceditors@gmail.com), who will both advise them on the content of the proposal, and support the editing of the special issue whilst it is in progress.

All contributions submitted to Gothic Studies are read anonymously by at least two readers, one of whom is normally a member of the journal’s international Editorial Advisory Board. Further readers may be brought in, should agreement not be reached by the original readers. The reading process will always remain anonymous, and the names of contributors and readers are never divulged by the journal. Readers’ reports are made available to the contributor, whether the proposed piece is commissioned or not. Editorial decisions are final, and no further correspondence will be entered into should an article be rejected.

Before submitting a manuscript, please ensure that it conforms as closely as possible to the journal’s style guidelines and that your name does not appear anywhere on the manuscript (including headers, footers or contact details appended at the end of the article). Manuscripts should be between 5000 and 7000 words in length, and should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 200 words. Manuscripts should be submitted as a word docx. to gothiceditors@gmail.com  Please direct any queries about the submission or review process to the same address.

Reviewing for Gothic Studies

Reviews should be 900-1200 words in length. Review articles which consider two or more works may be somewhat longer. Reviews and review articles should be produced to the journal’s style guidelines. If you would like to review for Gothic Studies, please contact the reviews editor responsible for the area in which the work is published:

Europe and Asia: Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, s.ni-fhlainn@mmu.ac.uk, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, M1 5NH

US, Canada, Australia: Dr. Maisha Wester, mwester@indiana.edu  

Subscribing to Gothic Studies

Gothic Studies is published by Edinburgh University Press on behalf of the International Gothic Association – https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/gothic

Institutional Subscriptions are available through Edinburgh University Press.

Individual subscriptions include full personal membership of the International Gothic Association.

See here for details: http://www.internationalgothic.group.shef.ac.uk/join-the-iga/

Please direct any queries about the journal subscription to Carol Lonie:
journals@eup.ed.ac.uk

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THE CHARACTER ST. AMBROSE IS THE KEY PROTAGONIST IN MATTHEW LEWIS FAMOUS 1796 GOTHIC HORROR NOVEL THE MONK (DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE DATE THE BOOK IS A VERY MODERN READ)

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The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. ... It is a prime example of the male Gothic that specialises in the aspect of horror. Its convoluted and scandalous plot has made it one of the most important ...

The Monk by Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis, The Monk [page: frontispiece and title page]

 

Matthew Lewis’s novel The Monk (1796) marked a turning point in the history of Gothic literature. With its emphasis firmly on the horrific and the shocking, the book moved Gothic away from the gentle terrors of earlier authors such as Horace Walpole and, instead, confronted readers with an onslaught of horror in the form of spectral bleeding nuns, mob violence, murder, sorcery and incest. Unsurprisingly the book met with outrage and condemnation from critics. Equally unsurprisingly it was hugely popular with the public.

With its twin themes of erotic obsession and the corrupting influence of power, The Monk deals with important issues and contains moments of impressive psychological insight. At heart, however, it remains a morality tale about one man’s fall from grace through greed, pride and lust. The edition shown here is a heavily abbreviated version of the novel published sometime around 1818. On the left Ambrosio, the monk of the title, signs his Faustian pact with the devil while, on the right, the entire plot of the book is summarised in lurid headings such as ‘Artifices of a Female Demon’; ‘Her Mother Whom He Murdered’; ‘Assassinates with a Dagger’ and, finally, ‘Most Ignominious Death’.

Early reviews

The Monk first became widely available in an edition published by Joseph Bell in 1796. The title-page only carried Lewis’s initials, rather than his full name, but the first reviews were – somewhat surprisingly given the content – favourable. Encouraged, Lewis announced his authorship in the second edition, adding for good measure his new title of Member of Parliament. Unfortunately, with his name now firmly associated with the book (so much so that he was known as ‘Monk’ Lewis for the rest of his life) the novel became the subject of critical condemnation and accusations of blasphemy. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge attacked the book in the Critical Review of February 1797 arguing that its scenes of lust and depravity were likely to corrupt readers. Coleridge observed further that The Monk was a novel ‘which if a parent saw in the hands of a son or daughter he might reasonably turn pale’. Worse was to follow when the writer Thomas James Mathias argued that certain passages in the book, especially those containing comments on the Bible, were open to legal action on the grounds that they were sacrilegious. Chastened by the intense criticism, Lewis removed several controversial passages from the book and from the fourth edition onwards the novel appeared in a somewhat subdued form. The Monk, however, never lost its popularity with readers keen to test their morality against its allegedly depraved content.

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Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. ... The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis. No cover available. Download; Bibrec ...

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The Gendering of Terror and Horror in The Monk Matthew Lewis's novel The Monk is widely considered to be an ideal example of the horror Gothic genre (Otto).

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Meet Kieran Collins of Vancouver. Like many drug addicts he would like to get rid of the "monster" that makes his life difficult. But rehabilitation has not worked for him. The BC government still thinks that he has a right to live and is providing him with a substitute to street drugs that would kill him.

The UCP government of Alberta opposes such an approach. They would rather see people like Kieran Collins dead if they cannot go to rehab AND succeed. But that's because the UCP is "pro-life."

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