This file defines commands to use the old German fonts for Fraktur, Schwabacher, and Gothic designed by Yannis Haralambous. To access them, use the package oldgerm in a \usepackage command. gothfamily frakfamily swabfamily This package option defines the commands \ \ \ \gothfamily, \frakfamily and \swabfamily to switch to the corresponding font families (thus these commands behave similar as \s...

This article traces the allusions to the utopian cultural schemas of alchemy and hermetic philosophy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and “Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist” in order to show that the mysterious anti-hero Carwin does not have to be cast in the role of gothic villain but instead can play the part of marginalised utopian idealist, whose dissident presence in the novel reveals tha...

The article explores the use of sentimental and Gothic emotionality in William Earle’s epistolary novel Obi or, History Three-Fingered Jack (1800). Literature about colonial slavery challenges previous notions relationship between as literary traditions modes writing. narrative often involves morally edifying tears compassionate attempts to alleviate suffering others. In Obi’s passages, however...

Erica McCrystal’s Gotham City Living: The Social Dynamics in the Batman Comics and Media is an illuminating tome that chronicles dimensions of Batman’s City, film, television print as a playground for popular imagination where competing standpoints on identity villainy play out. scholarship largely focuses culture vis-à -vis Victorian detective literature, gothic nature heroics villainy, la...