ENG 580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Miasma Theory, Soot, Claustrophobia
17 Jul 2016
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Remote, isolated rural: eel marsh house, cryghin gifford, gifford isn"t a real place, composite of gothic locales from dracula and dickens. Urban: london at the beginning of the novel, fog as miasma, fog as furred beast (23) The fog was soot from coal: city as hell (22) Uncanny ineffable: dark secret in the past (8-9, something , his face flickered with what?i could not tell? (37) The urge to repress and explain the mysterious and gothic away rational mind, but you cant reason with evil/the fantastic even though the vision or ghost is real .
