Special Issue "Recycling the Gothic: Adaptations in the Romantic-Era Marketplace"
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A special issue of Literature (ISSN 2410-9789).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 August 2022.
Special Issue Editor
Prof. Dr. Franz Potter E-Mail Website SciProfiles
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Arts and Humanities Department, College of Letters and Sciences, National University, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
Interests: Gothic literature; nineteenth-century Gothic chapbooks; trade Gothic; Gothic publishing industry; the author Sarah Wilkinson
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite submissions for a Special Issue of Literature focusing on adaptations of Gothic texts in the Romantic-era marketplace. From its inception, the Gothic tradition has been built upon a framework of familiar set themes, motifs and characterizations, such as the use of geographically and temporally displaced settings, an emphasis on terror and horror, the exploitation of the supernatural and, significantly, techniques of literary suspense. This framework was then recycled, imitated, redacted, adapted, manipulated and restructured into new and interesting novels, chapbooks, short stories and serials. As Frederick Frank in The First Gothics observed, ‘the Gothic in all its stages and mutations is a highly parasitic form; Gothics shamelessly feed on the literary remains of previous Gothic, theft of material is a universal law of composition, and the line between crafty imitation and over plagiarism is often so weak that it breaks down entirely…’ (p. xii).
This Special Issue seeks to examine adaptations of the Gothic in all forms, from the novel to the short story, chapbooks and serialized publications. It will explore the recycling of essential elements of the Gothic as a sign of activity and innovation rather than monotony and stagnation. The recycling of the Gothic, whether specific motifs and characterizations or stories themselves, reveals continual interest and engagement between the author and the reader. This distinction is important not only because it allows recycling to be seen as crucial to the growth and sustainability of the Gothic, but also because it allows the Gothic tradition to continue to be viewed in the larger context of evolving discourses.
We are interested in papers that focus on topics such as, but not limited to:
- Adaptation vs. imitation.
- The recycling of Gothic motifs and tropes.
- Chapbook adaptions of Gothic novels.
- Re-examination of authors such as Eliza Parsons, Mary Meeke, Francis Lathom, Sarah Wilkinson and Charlotte Dacre.
- Formulaic Gothic.
- Imitations of Radcliffe and Lewis.
- The critical divide between the Gothic canon and the trade Gothic.
- Gothic short stories.
- Gothic adaptations of dramas.
- Gothic chapbooks to novels.
- The Gothic in periodicals such as Marvellous Magazine or Tell-Tale Magazine.
- Gothic dramas.
- Publishers of Gothic novels and chapbooks, including Ann Lemoine and Thomas Tegg.
- Gothic book trade.
- Female authorship.
Prof. Dr. Franz Potter
Guest Editor
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Keywords
Gothic
adaptations
chapbooks
abridgements
book trade
publishers
terror
female authorship
Ann Radcliffe
Matthew Lewis
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