Reading literature through the looking glass of theory.
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Yep. We had to. Because if you're going to talk about the non-normative, extraordinary, or just plain super-freaky body, you've gotta start with the granddaddy of them all: Frankenstein. After all...
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Yeah, like Frankenstein, Dracula is another one of those stories that everybody has grown up with. It's the Little Engine that Could of the horror world.And—we know—it might seem pr...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
While Dracula and Frankenstein explore in their own unique ways the threats posed by extraordinary bodies to the community and the nation as a whole, another Gothic classic, Dr. Jekyll...
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
For those of you not familiar with Kafka's disturbing story, The Metamorphosis is the story of an ordinary, young man, Gregor Samsa, who awakes one morning to find himself transformed into a...
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Hey! We're no longer in the realm of horror! So, okay, Mrs. Dalloway isn't gothic, but it sure isn't your straightforward, run-of-the-mill story. Mrs. Dalloway is straight-up, no-holds-barre...