Mercer, Erin

Contributions

• “A deluge of shrieking unreason”: Supernaturalism and Settlement in New Zealand Gothic Fiction
  Articles
  Like any genre or mode, the Gothic is malleable, changing according to time and place. This is particularly apparent when what is considered Gothic in one era is compared with that of another. The giant helmet that falls from the sky in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1764) is a very different threat to the ravenous vampires that stalk the novels of Anne Rice, just as Ann...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 17 No. 4 (2014): gothic
• Gothic: New Directions in Media and Popular Culture
  Editorial
  In a field of study as well-established as the Gothic, it is surprising how much contention there is over precisely what that term refers to. Is Gothic a genre, for example, or a mode? Should it be only applicable to literary and film texts that deal with tropes of haunting and trauma set in a gloomy atmosphere, or might it meaningfully be applied to other cultural...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 17 No. 4 (2014): gothic