1. Alone
1.1. childhood that made speaker gloomy
1.2. gloomy and dark reflection on his life => lyrical poem
1.3. 'demon in my view'
1.4. isolation
1.5. failure to appreciate nature's beauty
2. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
2.1. Femme fatale => deceptive and seductive
2.2. gloomy dream-like picture
2.3. pathetic fallacy => weather reflects mood of narrative
2.4. Enchantment/magic, nature, suffering, loss, tragic heroe
2.5. cyclical structure => never ending = entrapment
3. Mariana
3.1. gloomy atmosphere
3.2. extended visual depiction of melancholy isolation
3.3. ballade
4. One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted
5. The Erl-King
5.1. Key ideas
5.1.1. male gaze
5.1.2. liminality
5.1.3. spatial horror (disorientation)
6. Settings
6.1. forests
6.1.1. Snow Child
6.1.1.1. white
6.1.1.1.1. pool of blood
6.1.2. Erl King
6.1.3. Dracula
6.1.4. Company of the Wolves
6.2. castles
6.2.1. Supersition
6.2.2. Dracula
6.2.3. Marquis
6.2.4. Lady of The House of Love
6.3. cottage
6.3.1. Porppyria's Lover
6.3.2. Marianna
6.3.3. Erl King
6.4. liminal spaces
6.4.1. Erl King
6.4.2. Dracula
6.4.2.1. loss of bearing : day/night?
6.4.2.1.1. e.g. Marianna
6.4.3. Marquis
6.4.3.1. between water and land
6.4.3.1.1. 'amniotic'
6.4.3.2. Bloody chamber
6.4.3.3. Bedroom
6.4.3.4. library
6.4.4. Dickinson
6.4.4.1. running in forest
6.4.4.1.1. real?
6.4.5. bathroom
6.4.5.1. Mr Lyon
6.4.5.2. Bloody Chamber
6.5. mind
6.5.1. Dickinson
6.5.2. Alone
6.6. maze
6.6.1. Castle of Dracula
6.6.2. Dickinson
6.7. Transportation
6.7.1. train
6.7.1.1. Bloody Chamber
6.7.1.2. Dracula
6.7.2. Demeter in Dracula
6.7.3. carriage in Dracula
6.8. nature
6.8.1. meadow
6.8.1.1. LBDSM
6.8.2. garden in Mr Lyon
6.8.3. Moutains
6.8.3.1. Sublime in Superstition
6.8.3.1.1. 'Amid Alverna's high steeps'
6.8.3.2. Carpathians
6.8.3.3. Alone
6.9. city
6.9.1. London
6.9.1.1. Mr Lyon
6.9.1.2. Dracula
6.9.2. Whitby
6.9.2.1. ruined abbey
6.9.3. Italy
6.9.3.1. Bergam in Puss In Boots
6.9.3.2. Milan in Tiger's Bride
7. The Bloody Chamber
8. Superstition. An Ode
8.1. Sublime
8.2. conflict superstition/nature
8.3. female gothic
8.4. association of 'demon' with royalty => idea of decaying opulence
8.5. Terror => death, revenge, desolation
9. Porphyria's Lover
10. Th Snow Child
10.1. Themes
10.1.1. jealousy
10.1.2. men power and desire
10.1.3. horror
10.2. Setting
10.2.1. 'Fresh snow fell on snow already fallen; when it ceased, the whole world was white' => disorientation
10.3. The Count
10.3.1. 'I wish I had a girl red as blood' => ambiguous (mistress/paternity?)
10.3.2. 'Raven's feather' => death
10.4. The Countess
10.4.1. 'pelts of black foxes' => uncanny
10.4.2. Close to evil stepmother figure
10.4.3. Active but suffering
10.4.4. despises her husband 'he was soon finished'
10.5. The girl
10.5.1. passive vitcim => damsel in distress
10.5.2. stark naked
10.5.3. white skin, red mouth, black hair
10.6. Symbol of the rose
10.6.1. femme fatale
10.6.2. love of the Count
10.6.3. ambiguous ending
10.7. Gothic tropes
10.7.1. black and white imagery
10.7.2. desire, death, destruction & power
10.7.3. representation of gender roles
11. Gothic characters
11.1. corrupt aristocrat
11.1.1. Marquis
11.1.1.1. 'He was rich as Croesus'
11.1.2. The Count
11.1.3. Signor Pantleone
11.1.4. the father in Mr Lyon
11.2. damsel in distress
11.2.1. the bride
11.2.1.1. ?
11.2.2. Lucy
11.2.2.1. ?
11.2.3. Marianna
11.2.3.1. 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'
11.2.4. The Snow Child
11.2.5. birds in the Erl-King
11.3. ghosts
11.3.1. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
11.3.1.1. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci / Hath thee in thrall!'
11.4. supernatural beings
11.4.1. the Erl-King
11.4.2. Puss In Boots
11.4.3. Mr Lyon
11.4.4. The Beast
11.4.5. Demon
11.4.5.1. 'The demon Superstition Nature shocks, / And waves her Sceptre o'er the world below'
11.5. vampire
11.5.1. Dracula
11.5.2. The Lady of the House of Love
11.6. femme fatale
11.6.1. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
11.6.1.1. 'I met a lady in the meads, / Fulle beautiful - a faery's child'
11.6.2. Porphyria
11.6.2.1. 'And made her smooth white shoulder bare, / And all her yellow hair displaced'
11.6.3. The Lady of the House of Love
11.6.4. The Countess
11.6.5. vampires
11.7. mad/disturbed people
11.7.1. Marianna
11.7.1.1. Repetition of 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'
11.7.2. poetic voice in Alone
11.7.2.1. 'in the dawn / Of a most stormy life'
11.7.3. Porphyria's Lover
11.7.3.1. 'I listened with heart fit to break'
11.7.4. Dickinson persona
11.7.4.1. 'Than its interiror Confronting - / That Cooler Host-
11.7.5. Renfield
11.8. strong women
11.8.1. mother of the Bride
11.8.2. Tabi
11.8.3. Girl in the Erl-King
11.8.4. Mina Harker
11.9. young naive male hero
11.9.1. Jonathan Harker
11.9.2. The Piano Tuner
11.9.3. The Knight
11.9.3.1. 'I made a garland for her head, / And bracelets too'
11.9.4. Quincey Morris