Tag: Gothic

Free Download Gothic Fashion the History: From Barbarians to Haute Couture by Katie Godman
English | April 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 1916846106 | 184 pages | True EPUB | 15.74 MB
From the ancient barbarians responsible for the fall of Rome, to the black-lipped teenager updating their Instagram from a graveyard, Goths have been with us for a long time. Ideas about what is Gothic have changed and mutated, but a fascination with the dark and dramatic has remained a constant.

Free Download Antonio Alcalá González, "Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic "
English | ISBN: 0367406330 | 2019 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB
Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothicfocuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic―the double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself defined by duplicity (indigenous/European, autochthonous religions/Catholic). Despite this duplicity and at the same time because of it, this region has also generated "mestizaje," or forms resulting from racial mixing and hybridity. This collection, then, aims to contribute to the current discussion about the Gothic in Latin America by examining the doubles and hybrid forms that result from the violent yet culturally fertile process of colonization that took place in the area.

Free Download Nick Groom, "The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction "
English | ISBN: 0199586799 | 2012 | 163 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. This Very Short Introduction captures the history of the Gothic from ancient times to the present. It covers the sack of Rome by the barbarian tribes, mediaeval architecture, popular culture in the sixteenth century (including ballads and Revenge Tragedy), political theories of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the rise of the Gothic novel, the Victorian Gothic Revival, and the influence of Gothic culture on film, music, and fashion. It includes familiar Gothic novels such Frankenstein and Dracula, while also covering Gothic gardening, slasher movies, and the current Goth scene. It is the only account of the Gothic that describes the entire history of the term, presenting it in all its richly complex and perversely contradictory glory.

Free Download The Art of Gothic Living: Dark Decor for the Modern Macabre by Paul Gambino
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 1454951095 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 268.69 MB

Free Download Russian Gothic by Aleksandr Skorobogatov, translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
English | May 9, 2023 | ISBN: 1910400904, 1644284022 | True EPUB | 122 pages | 0.1 MB
"A great Russian novel…in the grand Russian tradition." -Le Figaro

Free Download Gothic Life: The Essential Guide to Macabre Style by Aurelio Voltaire
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 0760388326 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 26.36 MB
The New York Times-dubbed "Martha Stewart for Macabre Homemakers," Aurelio Voltaire, presents the definitive guide to revamping your sanctuary to match your eerie vibe.

Free Download Gothic and Gender: An Introduction By Donna Heiland
2004 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0631200495 | PDF | 4 MB
Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland’s Gothic and Gender offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic narratives from a feminist perspective.The book concentrates primarily on fiction from the 1760s through the 1840s, exploring the work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, James Malcolm Rymer, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Smith, and Charles Brockden Brown. The final chapter looks at contemporary fiction and its relation to the gothic, including an exploration of Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and Ann-Marie Macdonald’s Fall on Your KneesA Coda provides an overview of scholarship on the gothic, showing how gothic gradually became a major focus for literary critics, and paying particular attention to the feminist reinvigoration of gothic studies that began in the 1970s and continues today.Taken as a whole the book offers a stimulating survey of the representation of gender in the gothic, suitable for both students and readers of gothic literature.

Free Download Charles L. Crow, "California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream "
English | ISBN: 1839983795 | 2024 | 96 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the California dream of happiness in a land of new beginnings has been maintained by suppression of disturbing realities: above all, the destruction of native peoples; and by events and facts such as the tragedy of the Donner Party, the persistence of poverty and crime in the golden land, disturbing crimes such as the Black Dahlia; and pandemics and ecological disaster. This book explores a rich Gothic tradition that exposes the repressed past and imagines the fates awaiting a failed California.

Free Download Gothic Tales (Penguin Classics) (Audiobook)
English | October 21, 2021 | ASIN: B097TM8ZYK | M4B@128 kbps | 16h 25m | 894 MB
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell | Narrator: Olivia Forrest
This Penguin Classic is performed by Olivia Forrest. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Laura Keanzler.
Elizabeth Gaskell’s chilling Gothic Tales blends the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. ‘Disappearances’, inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; Lois the Witch, a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’, a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors. Whether darkly surreal, such as ‘The Poor Clare’, where an evil doppelgänger is formed by a woman’s bitter curse, or mischievous like ‘Curious, If True’, a playful reworking of fairy tales, all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell’s novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.

Free Download Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (Audiobook)
English | October 04, 2022 | ASIN: B0BGJNRKS6 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 4m | 549 MB
Author and Narrator: David J. Skal
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It’s recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight.