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Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature VOL. 43 No 2 (2019) ii e-ISSN: 2450-4580 Publisher: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin, Poland Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press MCSU Library building, 3rd floor ul. Idziego Radziszewskiego 11, 20-031 Lublin, Poland phone: (081) 537 53 04 e-mail: [email protected] www.wydawnictwo.umcs.lublin.pl Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Jolanta Knieja, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland Deputy Editors-in-Chief Jarosław Krajka, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland Anna Maziarczyk, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland Statistical Editor Tomasz Krajka, Lublin University of Technology, Poland International Advisory Board Anikó Ádám, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland Ruba Fahmi Bataineh, Yarmouk University, Jordan Alejandro Curado, University of Extramadura, Spain Saadiyah Darus, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia Janusz Golec, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland Margot Heinemann, Leipzig University, Germany Christophe Ippolito, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America Vita Kalnberzina, University of Riga, Latvia Henryk Kardela, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland Ferit Kilickaya, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey Laure Lévêque, University of Toulon, France Heinz-Helmut Lüger, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Peter Schnyder, University of Upper Alsace, France Alain Vuillemin, Artois University, France v Indexing Peer Review Process 1. Each article is reviewed by two independent reviewers not affiliated to the place of work of the author of the article or the publisher. 2. For publications in foreign languages, at least one reviewer’s affiliation should be in a different country than the country of the author of the article. 3. Author/s of articles and reviewers do not know each other’s identity (double-blind review process). 4. Review is in the written form and contains a clear judgment on whether the article is to be published or rejected. 5. Criteria for qualifying or rejecting publications and the reviewing form are published on the journal’s website. 6. Identity of reviewers of particular articles or issues are not revealed, the list of collaborating reviewers is published once a year on the journal’s website. 7. To make sure that journal publications meet highest editorial standards and to maintain quality of published research, the journal implements procedures preventing ghostwriting and guest authorship. For articles with multiple authorship, each author’s contribution needs to be clearly defined, indicating the contributor of the idea, assumptions, methodology, data, etc., used while preparing the publication. The author submitting the manuscript is solely responsible for that. Any cases of academic dishonesty will be documented and transferred to the institution of the submitting author. Online Submissions - https://journals.umcs.pl/lsmll Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions. Volume 43, Issue 2 Gothic Explorations. Studies in Literature and Film SOMMAIRE From the Editors. 1 Anna Kędra-Kardela, Aleksandra Kędzierska, Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk Going Down the Drain: Sweeney Todd, Sewerage, and London Sanitation in the 1840s. 3 Jarlath Killeen The Dialogic Mode in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: The Manorial Gothic Meets a Subversive Novel of Manners. 19 Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga The Utopian and the Gothic in Ellis James Davis’s Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under The Ice . 31 Marta Komsta The Political Gothic of Dystopian Romance. Joseph Shield Nicholson’s Thoth (1888). 41 Justyna Galant The Fertility of the Supernatural: Stuart Neville’s The Ghosts of Belfast . 51 Jacek Mydla John Dickson Carr’s Early Detective Novels and the Gothic Convention. 61 Joanna Kokot “You have a lovely and unusual name.” Mrs de Winter from Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca – a Gothic Heroine in Search of Identity. 75 Anna Kędra-Kardela Mistaken for Ghosts: The Gothic Trope of Catholic Superstition in Conrad and Ford’s Romance. 87 Anne Keithline Violence as Spectacle: Happy Gothic in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London. 97 Aleksandra Kędzierska “I know not […] what I myself am”: Conceptual Integration in Susan Heyboer O’Keefe’s Frankenstein’s Monster (2010) . 109 Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk Living in the Sunken Place: Notes on Jordan Peele’s Get Out as Gothic Fiction. 125 Jorge Bastos da Silva Family Resemblance: Frankenstein’s Monster and the Phantom of the Opera in Penny Dreadful (2014-2016). 135 Dorota Babilas From a Gothic Text to a Neobaroque Cinema: Wojciech Jerzy Has’s Adaptation of James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. 145 Zofia Kolbuszewska Darwin’s Monsters: Evolution, Science, and the Gothic in Christian Alvart’s Pandorum. 157 Katarzyna Pisarska LUBLIN STUDIES IN MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE, 43(2), 2019, HTTP://LSMLL.JOURNALS.UMCS.PL Anna Kędra-Kardela Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5534-8691 Aleksandra Kędzierska Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3165-6267 Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0623-0117 From the Editors Ever since its “official” inception in the 18th century, the Gothic convention has shown inexhaustible potential for multifarious implementations in all fields of artistic creation. A truly transgressive phenomenon, the Gothic has crossed boundaries of literary genres, media and modes of expression, involving a diversity of themes and forms. The scholarly response to this diversity has confirmed the unquestionable status of the Gothic in modern literary and visual discourses. This special issue of Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, which is a sequel to Expanding the Gothic Canon: Studies in Literature, Film and New Media (ed. Anna Kędra-Kardela and Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk; Peter Lang, 2014), reflects the dynamic development and topicality of the academic research carried out within Gothic studies. The articles in this collection attest to the inexhaustible diversity of manifestations of the Gothic mode. Individual essays dwell on romantic, Victorian, modernist and postmodernist variations of the Gothic in fiction, film, and television series. The authors refer to Gothic-related concepts such as the abject, the numinous, the neo-baroque, and the sublime. The plethora of themes and motifs discussed include, for instance, the concept of evolution and science (Katarzyna Pisarska), identity and monstrosity (Dorota Babilas, Jorge Bastos da Silva, Anna Kędra-Kardela, Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk), human waste (Jarlath Killeen), the theatricality of crime (Aleksandra Kędzierska), the supernatural and haunting (Jacek Mydla), terrorism (Anne 2 Anna Kędra-Kardela, Aleksandra Kędzierska, Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk Keithline) as well as political commentary (Zofia Kolbuszewska). The articles also show the coexistence and interplay of the Gothic with genres such as the crime/detective novel (Joanna Kokot), utopia and dystopia (Marta Komsta, Justyna Laura Galant), and the novel of manners (Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga), to mention but a few. The editors of this volume firmly believe that the essays included here will prove inspiring to scholars and students alike. LUBLIN STUDIES IN MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE, 43(2), 2019, HTTP://LSMLL.JOURNALS.UMCS.PL Jarlath Killeen Trinity College, Ireland [email protected] http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8132-0668 Going Down the Drain: Sweeney Todd, Sewerage, and London Sanitation in the 1840s. ABSTRACT This article examines the penny blood The String of Pearls in terms of its treatment of human remains as the equivalent of human excrement. In the mid-nineteenth century, London underwent a transformation in terms of its waste and sanitation management, involving changes which were often controversial and generated considerable debate and discussion in all areas of society. Many of these changes had a disproportionate affect on the urban poor who were also the main readers of the penny bloods and dreadfuls, so it is no surprise to find that sanitation is a major topic in these fictions. The article argues that the Sweeney Todd serial acts as an intervention into these discussions. Keywords: Penny Blood, Human Waste, Sewerage, Corpse Culture You never quite knew what you were going to find waiting for you if you descended below ground in Victorian London. There are multiple reports of all manner of weird, wonderful and frankly repulsive discoveries made by the men employed to keep the drainage and sewerage systems going. In 1862, the Builder magazine, covering the construction of the new main drain for the city, complained that ‘the filth which, under the veiled term of sewage’ flowed below the surface of the earth included an assortment of distasteful substances: the percolations of crammed churchyards, the rain-washings of the streets, alleys, and yards…horse and cattle dungs, sweepings and scrapings lying on [street surfaces]; refuse from hospitals, infirmaries and dispensaries; fishmongers’ and fishmarket washings and offal; slaughterhouse offal; fell-mongers’, glue-makers’, candle-makers’, bone-dealers’, tanners’, knackers’, scum boilers’, and triple-dressers’ liquid refuse; decayed leaves and vegetables; paper and rags; refuse