The Gothic Quest.

Summers, Montague

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“…The trend may even have influenced the names that mothers bestowed on children 13 . To capitalize on the popularity of these romances, 1960s presses issued reprints of the significant Gothic literary criticism of the 1920s and 1930s, and these, in another example of synchronicity, inspired a trickle of new scholarly research that, by the early 1980s, formed a veritable stream (Birkhead; Railo; Summers). Though the rarefied world of academe initially focused on the eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Gothic, it eventually addressed its more recent permutations in film, dime‐store romance, and television.…”

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“…Yet everything in the last analysis depends upon the supernatural, since as S. Augustine tells us, God is the only Reality'. 4 For contemporary geographical engagements with the magical, spectral or demonic, Summers illustrates the differential valuation of supernatures, and the consequent associations of fear, evil and burning (of souls, of witches).…”

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A Geography of Ghosts: : The Spectral Landscapes of Mary Butts

The Spectralities Reader : Ghosts and Haunting in Contemporary Cultural Theory

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NutzungsbedingungenThe paper considers the writings of Mary Butts (1890Butts ( -1937 to explore a geography of ghosts. After examining earlier geographical engagements with the spectral and magical, and outlining the terms of recent scholarly debate concerning spectrality, the paper introduces Butts' life and work, focussing on her ghostly writings in stories, novels, journals, autobiography and an essay on the supernatural in fiction. Butts' discussion of magic and place, and her accounts of the landscapes of Dorset and west Cornwall, demonstrate a version of spectral landscape conveying enchantment, secret meaning and a culturally select geography. The paper concludes by considering Butts in relation to current discussions of spectral geography. Keywords: ghosts • geography • Mary Butts • spectralityWe have been careless lately what spiritual company we have kept; in our choice of ghostly guests. The results are observable. (Mary Butts, 1933) I. Introduction T hrough the writings of Mary Butts (1890Butts ( -1937, this paper raises a geography of ghosts. Butts' novels, stories, essays and journals allow an elaboration of spectral landscapes, suggest political variations on the spectro-geographic theme, and indicate forms of cultural authority claimed by the spectrally attuned. Her work also indicates the importance of genre in spectro-geographies, the forms and conventions shaping the ghost and producing it as a character. Butts' phrase: 'our choice of ghostly guests', quoted above, is from an essay on the supernatural in fiction. Butts sought to shape such choices via interventions deploying a sense of the magical qualities of things, places, landscapes, writing in an inter-war Britain where attempts to define, claim and protect magical, sacred geographies were not uncommon. The paper proceeds through an episodic structure, with an introduction to Butts' life and work following discussion of the recent critical currency of the spectral. Sections consider the ghost as literary figure, Butts' own magic places, her tales of ghostly happenings, and geographical claims to exclusive magic. We begin with some neglected items from the geographical past, which will return to meet Butts in conclusion.cultural geographies 2008 15: 335-357

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The Gothic Quest.

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Kitschen Witches: Martha Stewart: Gothic Housewife, Corporate CEO

Kitschen Witches: Martha Stewart: Gothic Housewife, Corporate CEO

A Geography of Ghosts: : The Spectral Landscapes of Mary Butts

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