Traveller's Tales: Rudyard Kipling's Gothic Short Fiction

More than cautionary tales: the role of fiction in bioethics.

Is there a role for fiction in explorations of ethics? Are words, as Conchis says, only for truth, for facts? Or is it perhaps the case that words can be used to help us reach a deeper truth—through fiction? This month the Journal of Medical Ethics features a form of publication rarely found in the pages of scholarly journals: the first instalment of a fictional “bioethics soap opera” designed ...

Gothic Scholars Don’t Wear Black Gothic Studies and Gothic Subcultures

are hardly in touch with each other. This is something that should ideally change in the near future, since Gothic Studies and Gothic youth subcultures greatly overlap, at least as regards their common interest in Gothic literature, the iconography and the non-literary texts (films, comics, and so on) derived from it. The multiplicity of texts generated by Gothic, understood here as a narrative...

Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction 1770-1812

Male Brothels, Urbanization and Xiaoguan Identity in Late Ming Fiction: The Forgotten Tales of Longyang

Published in 1632, Jingjiang’s Besotted with Bamboo Recluse’s The forgotten tales of Longyang (Longyang yishi ) is a short story collection focusing on contemporary male same-sex prostitution. Among the twenty tales, the stories narrate various forms of male prostitution from private agreements, to deals via go-betweens, to public male brothels. This diversity of venues and arrangements appears...

Gothic Art and Architecture

Gothic Art and Architecture, religious and secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). Gothic art began to be produced in France about 1140, spreading to the rest of Europe during the following century. The Gothic Age ended with the advent of the Ren...