Stoker, Bram. Under the Sunset. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882. Illustration opposite page 50, by W.V. Cockburn.
The John J. Burns Library is celebrating Halloween this year by highlighting this research guide (or Libguide) created by Irish Studies Librarian Kathy Williams and Collection Services Librarian Brendan Rapple for Professor Marjorie Howes’ English 607 class on Irish Gothic. According to Professor Howes, this class focuses on “Ghosts and vampires, lunatics and criminals, human corruption and supernatural punishment: these things have fascinated generations of Irish writers and readers. This advanced seminar investigates why Ireland produced such a rich tradition of Gothic literature, beginning in the early nineteenth century and continuing right up to the present. This class also explores various critical and theoretical approaches to the genre: political, historical, psychological, sexual, and religious. Writers to be studied include Maria Edgeworth, Sheridan LeFanu, Charles Maturin, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen, and Patrick McCabe.” So this Halloween enjoy some frighteningly good research with this guide to the Irish Gothic and watch out for those things that go bump in the night!
