Carol Margaret Davison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Margaret Davison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Davison |
| SIGNATURE | DAVISON C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Windsor |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1913 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Houses of Terror, Castles of Despair: Nightmarish Necropoetics and Necropolitics in the Victorian Workhouse
This essay brings Achille Mbembe’s intellectually trenchant theory of necropower to bear on the early Victorian era’s most despised and iconic institution, known as the workhouse, arguably one of the most preeminent emblems of democracy’s nocturnal body located within Britain. Regarded by many of its critics as enacting the Utilitarian, inhumane, and ‘mechanistic’ treatment of the poor (Crowther, ‘Workhouse’ 194), the workhouse was frequently por…
Global Frankenstein
Gothic Locations
In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler describes AMERICAN LITERATURE as ‘bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction’ that wrestles with moral/psychological questions and exposes the American soul’s hidden ‘blackness’. Attentive to the dark side of America’s socio-political legacy and ‘the sins of the fathers’, American Gothic wrestles with that nation’s two ‘special guilts’ — ‘the slaughter of the Indians’ and ‘the…
Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature
Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewis
Haunted House/Haunted Heroine: Female Gothic Closets in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
“Marriage had bastilled... [her] for life.” (154–5) Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: Or, Maria, A Fragment “The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians.” (6
A Gothic Bonanza
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking through the century, 1897-1997
Introduction Part I: Understanding Diversity Part II: The Worlds of Work Part III: Daily Stresses Part IV: Sources of Change
Love'em and Lynch'em: The Castration Motif in Gayl Jones's Eva's Man
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Love'em and Lynch'em: The Castration Motif in Gayl Jones's Eva's Man
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking through the century, 1897-1997
Introduction Part I: Understanding Diversity Part II: The Worlds of Work Part III: Daily Stresses Part IV: Sources of Change
A Gothic Bonanza
Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature
Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewis
Haunted House/Haunted Heroine: Female Gothic Closets in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
“Marriage had bastilled... [her] for life.” (154–5) Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: Or, Maria, A Fragment “The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians.” (6
Gothic Locations
In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler describes AMERICAN LITERATURE as ‘bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction’ that wrestles with moral/psychological questions and exposes the American soul’s hidden ‘blackness’. Attentive to the dark side of America’s socio-political legacy and ‘the sins of the fathers’, American Gothic wrestles with that nation’s two ‘special guilts’ — ‘the slaughter of the Indians’ and ‘the…
Global Frankenstein
Houses of Terror, Castles of Despair: Nightmarish Necropoetics and Necropolitics in the Victorian Workhouse
This essay brings Achille Mbembe’s intellectually trenchant theory of necropower to bear on the early Victorian era’s most despised and iconic institution, known as the workhouse, arguably one of the most preeminent emblems of democracy’s nocturnal body located within Britain. Regarded by many of its critics as enacting the Utilitarian, inhumane, and ‘mechanistic’ treatment of the poor (Crowther, ‘Workhouse’ 194), the workhouse was frequently por…
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