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An anonymous individual asked @awildwickedslip for recommendations of literary criticism on the gothic, and she directed them to me, so I thought it was time I make a rec list on the topic.
I'm keep this to more general analyses, but of course have a lot of recommendations for more works on more specific texts (especially but not limited to Dracula).
I'm also including some things that are more properly about amatory or epistolary fiction, because I think an understanding of those genres will serve you well in contemplating the gothic.
Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony
Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves
Christy Desmet and Anne Williams (eds), Shakespearean Gothic
Kate Ferguson Ellis, The Contested Castle
David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
Devendra P. Varma, The Gothic Flame
Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman
Roland Barthes, Sade, Fourier, Loyola
Elizabeth Cook, Epistolary Bodies
Jacqueline Howard, Readng Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach
Toni Bowers, Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance
Peter Cryle, The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
Peter Cryle, Geometry in the Budoir: Configurations of French Erotic Narrative
Jalal Toufic, Vampire: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature
Marianne Noble, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature
Terry Castle, The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth Century Literature and the Invention of the Uncanny
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Farida Khelfa in The Agony of Marguerite Gautier by Jean-Paul Goude, 1992
#fashion#art#farida khelfa#jean paul goude#the agony of marguerite gautier#renaissance#renaissance art#photography#gothic#jean-paul goude#high fashion#haute couture#fashion photography#painting#classic art#romanticism#victorian#romanticism painting#romantic age
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Jane Austen was right when she said “I am half agony, half hope.”
#jane austen#half agony half hope#dark academia#light academia#classic literature#literature#books & libraries#romantic academia#aesthetic#english literature#text
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Edwin holding both of Charles' hands in his and telling him, "You cannot hurt me in any way that matters."
"I have been hurt beyond imagining and you have witnessed it firsthand, Charles. Do you remember it, as I remember it—clear as day? That was the worst agony imaginable. Unspeakable. Insurmountable. And you were wounded tenfold at the sight of it. You cannot hurt me in a way I will ever hold against you. And moreover you will not. No—don't look at me like that—I know you will not. Because you would sooner destroy yourself than cause me an iota of intentional pain. Your soul revolts against the thought of hurting me, does it not? Just as mine riots against the thought of you in pain. You saved me from hell—and Charles, you must not consign yourself to one of your own for fear of hurting me. Not when I am here to love you. Our love is not without risk, Charles, but it is a risk that is worth the reward."
#edwin saying YOU MIGHT HURT ME BUT IT WILL BE WORTH IT AND I WILL FORGIVE YOU BECAUSE AT LEAST WE TRIED#yes i will make edwin a lovelorn poetic romantic bitch in 100000% of cases#it's about - the possibility of pain being the inevitable risk of love. but it still being worth the journey. and it being NOTHING compared#to the agonies they have both already witnessed#dbda#payneland
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Le sang coule à longs flots de sa poitrine ouverte ; En vain il a des mers fouillé la profondeur ; L'océan était vide et la plage déserte ; Pour toute nourriture il apporte son cœur. […] Et, regardant couler sa sanglante mamelle, Sur son festin de mort il s'affaisse et chancelle, Ivre de volupté, de tendresse et d'horreur.
The blood runs in slow waves from his open chest In vain has he plumbed the depths of the seas The Ocean is empty and the shore deserted To provide food for all he offers his heart. […] And, watching his bloody breast drop On his death-feast he sinks and staggers Drunk on pleasure, on tenderness and horror.
-Alfred de Musset, La Nuit de Mai
#joker#arthur fleck#joker folie a deux#joker 2#joaquin phoenix#jokerart#joker 2 spoilers#my art#not me crying while drawing this#I'M SO SORRY TO INFLICT YOU THIS I SWEAR I'M JUST COPING#i had this image stuck in my head after seeing folie the first time and i HAD to draw it#it's like... arthur in his own head seeing his death as something beautiful#with higanbana/red spider lilies because :')#and for the poem well I remembered it while drawing so i had to include it#it’s about a pelican offering itself as food to its children#in the same way the poet uses his own sufferings to create his art for the world#romantic-core and well arthur fleck coded i guess#he is directly compared to a martyr in fàd#and if we think about the two films as a whole#isn't it the long agony of his life that is sublimated there?#and we are feasting on it?#ok i need to shut up now
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ATTENTION ALL ALASTOR SHIPPERS:
uniromantic
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. PROCEED
#it means you only experience romantic attraction to one person in your life ever!!#some people get their only crush SUUPER late#sooo a few decades or centuries works out fine :3#just as long as it's not a poly ship lmao.. two crushes makes you NOT uni because. uni. like. u know ur root words right#also IT IS NOT “fixing” one's aroness it is an aro identity of its own and not superior to any other identities !!!#just saying that bc fandoms fucking suck#anyway i think it'd be cute. especially with his disgust for even platonic affection. tryna be all intimidating#then THAT all of a sudden?? the agony. such silly billy blissful agony. not blissful for him but for the viewers of his suffering like us#tehe#uniromantic alastor#arospec alastor#aro alastor#alastor#hazbin hotel#FML what if i secretly put a hamburger emoji in tags 🍔 yeah that's right fuck you society#radioapple#radiostatic#duckiedeer#charlastor#what other fucking ships are there uhhhhh#idfk i headcanon him as full-on stereotypical aro whatever you call that i don't even do this bullshit#voxal#radiodust#alastor x oc#i think i am cringe.#i sincerely believe i am cringe and terrible. mayhaps social anxiety. who tf knowssss#P.S. as long as HE is not the one with multiple crushes i know polycules are whack#but ofc he could be grayro but where's the fun in that (there is lots of fun in it i am sorry)#radiorose
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“requiem for methuselah” crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I don’t actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that he’d go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but that’s neither here nor there, because in the background you’ve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesn’t usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Rayna’s competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???
And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, it’s just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Rayna’s death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how it’s sadder that Spock can’t even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he can’t love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??
#‘the joys of love made her human. the agonies of love destroyed her’ hUH. What a cool line.#hope it doesn’t become some sort of…thesis statement for you or something SPOCK#listen my number one beef with the way they write bones is that they just make him completely mischaracterize everything to suit the plot#this man is not an idiot he KNOWS Spock has emotions and just suppresses them#you’re going to tell me he’s been on that ship with Spock for years and thinks he feels no love whatsoever for anyone???#like even after what happened in the empath and in that episode where McCoy thought he was dying#he knows Spock loves people!!! COME ON#does he really just mean romantic love?? that’s so boring WRITE HIM BETTER#also they’re banking a lot on people remembering what the Vulcan mind meld is for that last bit#like I know it comes up a lot but…this is 1968 or whatever. They don’t have this shit on dvd to rewatch#you’re counting on really dedicated fan memory here or on people catching reruns#because otherwise it just looks like Spock waiting to be alone to touch Kirk as tenderly as possible and pray he forgets this woman#truly what’s going on#anyway I kind of hated this episode#like quite frankly there was too much going on#are androids people? would Kirk fall in love that hard that quickly and choose it over the safety of his crew?#why wasnt the illness ravaging the crew a bigger deal??#they didn’t even get into WHY flint was immortal#he was just a regular human and apparently the ONLY one who was granted immortality by the earth’s atmosphere#leaving aside the very creepy and very early born sexy yesterday trope going on throughout#but it was a really good Spock episode if you just….dont look at anything else….#the writer for this one also did Day of the Dove and Mirror Mirror which explains a LOT#two other episodes that are interesting for the character dynamics but really chaotic plot wise#anyway imagine saying to Spock’s face that he has no idea what love can drive a man to do#one has to laugh#tos#star trek#as always…. I’m sorry that I’m Like This
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#writing#literature#writers on tumblr#artists on tumblr#web weaving#web writing#spilled writing#spilled poetry#sad#suffering#longing#agony#life#poetry#poetic#love#heartbreak#brown eyes#love quotes#heart break#heartbroken#heartache#life quotes#writeblr#spilled words#romantic academia#romance#dark academia#light academia#lit
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behold: the doomed unrequited waltonstein manifesto courtesy of twitter user ustfile
#‘would revive you if you died’ made me laugh bc. yeah#i guess you could say this is what i consider their 'canon' relationship dynamic#to put it succinctly: walton thinks he's met his soulmate#his eyes? replied to baby#margaret you don't understand he's PERFECT even though he's literally about to pass away from grief and exposure you don't UNDERSTAND#victor values walton. absolutely cares for him and thinks he's wonderful#but has literally lost the ability to Feel in the way walton wishes he would#can any man be to him as clerval was? :(#'i can't love you how you want me to' just like boygenius said#and when he tells walton as much it breaks his heart a little#because he's having fantasies of somehow curing victor and whisking him back to england and becoming his househusband#but alas#bro is in agony and victor's like 'dearest henry... is that you....'#waltonstein#robert walton#victor frankenstein#frankenstein#walton tag#sorry buddy ilysm but your romantic failure is compelling to me#doomed narrative foil yaoi YAAAAAAAAY#this was not succinct at all was it
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#dark academia#classic academia#romantic academia#longing#agony#questioning#history#classical literature
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So. What is with broken tea cups in gothic adjacent media?
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Dr Romantic 3 : Episode 10
>> Whump List
#dr romantic 3#asian whump#whump#kdrama#korean drama#kdramaedit#ahn hyo seop#in pain#worry#screaming#in agony#crying#I tried to show the injury the less possible since it might be too much for some people
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Trobed I drew through genuine tears while i had a 24 hr migraine and my good old pal dys for ya 👍
#ignore my leg and the shit on the table i just couldn't be bothered cropping the image#it's been ages since i doodled traditionally. I'm just so used to digital noe#now. why am I ALWAYS mistyping that as noe#anyways i was SOOOO UNORMAL ABOUT THEM YESTERDAY#look the thing about trobed for me is. it literally does not fucking matter if i read them as romantic as platonic(qpr) or literally#whatever like they ARE EVERYTHING. THEY ARE EVERYTHING I AM THEY ARE EVERYTHING I WANT THEY R EVERYTHING THE WORLD DENIES ME#THEY ARE EVERYTHING ❗❗❗❗❗❗#when abed said i always thought I'd spend forever observing the world you made me a part of it#THAT'S ME . THAT'S.#NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN ME LIKE THAT BEFORE#but no one's made me part of it and I'M IN AGONY#anyways day 157 asking where's the 'word' to my 'it's 2009'#alexspostsnstuff#alextriestoart#doodles#trobed#community#troy barnes#abed nadir#abed's shirt was my brother's suggestion btw. he's never seen community but i wanted him to feel included
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“If you must die, I envy even the earth that wraps around your body.”
- Albert Camus, state of siege
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Had my character say 1 comment about how the other was cute -500hp Had my characters partake in banter that kinda looks like flirting -250hp Had my characters say they love each other +20hp Realizing it will 100% be interpreted as romantic -5000hp
#sp-rambles#Somebody put me out of my misery#How do fanfic writers do this this is agony (<- is writing their favourite ship being cute together)#I think the issue mainly is that I'm writing them in the lens of “yeah it's romantic but to ME and ME ONLY it's platonic”#But I still gotta make it romantic to most people#I like them as a QPR but I don't want to go through the effort of explaining what that is every time I make a fic#Plus I like attention and slashfics get more attention :3
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Since I bought like 1 book from hay on wye last year it seems I was intent on compensating for it this year. Behold the Haul
#where am i gonna put them you say? dont ask me questions i cant answer#also i shall have to glue the english eccentrics cover back on#the most expensive one was the architecture book for seventeen quid and the cheapest the romantic agony for one quid#im very very happy :D#rl shit
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