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The premise here is that all the literature we choose to call “gothic” is based on the premise that humans are essentially evil. The insistence in Victorian Horror that the Dark Side may be overcome by an effort of will is undermined by Cosmic Terror, where the influence of an entity from which we might wish to dissociate ourselves becomes pervasive. In Marie Belloc-Lowndes The Lodger, essentially an Edwardian Realist novel yet one which intertextualizes the Horror of Dracula and the Terror of a post Wellsian world already dehumanized by the mass media, the two stages of gothic writing overlap.
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Shepherd, R. (2021). An Edwardian Lodging on the Victorian Horror Threshold. In: Bloom, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_20
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