1. The Bloody Chamber
2. Superstition. An Ode
2.1. Sublime
2.2. conflict superstition/nature
2.3. female gothic
2.4. association of 'demon' with royalty => idea of decaying opulence
2.5. Terror => death, revenge, desolation
3. Alone
3.1. childhood that made speaker gloomy
3.2. gloomy and dark reflection on his life => lyrical poem
3.3. 'demon in my view'
3.4. isolation
3.5. failure to appreciate nature's beauty
4. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
4.1. Femme fatale => deceptive and seductive
4.2. gloomy dream-like picture
4.3. pathetic fallacy => weather reflects mood of narrative
4.4. Enchantment/magic, nature, suffering, loss, tragic heroe
4.5. cyclical structure => never ending = entrapment
5. Mariana
5.1. gloomy atmosphere
5.2. extended visual depiction of melancholy isolation
5.3. ballade
6. Porphyria's Lover
7. One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted
8. Th Snow Child
8.1. Themes
8.1.1. jealousy
8.1.2. men power and desire
8.1.3. horror
8.2. Setting
8.2.1. 'Fresh snow fell on snow already fallen; when it ceased, the whole world was white' => disorientation
8.3. The Count
8.3.1. 'I wish I had a girl red as blood' => ambiguous (mistress/paternity?)
8.3.2. 'Raven's feather' => death
8.4. The Countess
8.4.1. 'pelts of black foxes' => uncanny
8.4.2. Close to evil stepmother figure
8.4.3. Active but suffering
8.4.4. despises her husband 'he was soon finished'
8.5. The girl
8.5.1. passive vitcim => damsel in distress
8.5.2. stark naked
8.5.3. white skin, red mouth, black hair
8.6. Symbol of the rose
8.6.1. femme fatale
8.6.2. love of the Count
8.6.3. ambiguous ending
8.7. Gothic tropes
8.7.1. black and white imagery
8.7.2. desire, death, destruction & power
8.7.3. representation of gender roles
9. The Erl-King
9.1. Key ideas
9.1.1. male gaze
9.1.2. liminality
9.1.3. spatial horror (disorientation)
10. Gothic characters
10.1. corrupt aristocrat
10.1.1. Marquis
10.1.1.1. 'He was rich as Croesus'
10.1.2. The Count
10.1.3. Signor Pantleone
10.1.4. the father in Mr Lyon
10.2. damsel in distress
10.2.1. the bride
10.2.1.1. ?
10.2.2. Lucy
10.2.2.1. ?
10.2.3. Marianna
10.2.3.1. 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'
10.2.4. The Snow Child
10.2.5. birds in the Erl-King
10.3. ghosts
10.3.1. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
10.3.1.1. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci / Hath thee in thrall!'
10.4. supernatural beings
10.4.1. the Erl-King
10.4.2. Puss In Boots
10.4.3. Mr Lyon
10.4.4. The Beast
10.4.5. Demon
10.4.5.1. 'The demon Superstition Nature shocks, / And waves her Sceptre o'er the world below'
10.5. vampire
10.5.1. Dracula
10.5.2. The Lady of the House of Love
10.6. femme fatale
10.6.1. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
10.6.1.1. 'I met a lady in the meads, / Fulle beautiful - a faery's child'
10.6.2. Porphyria
10.6.2.1. 'And made her smooth white shoulder bare, / And all her yellow hair displaced'
10.6.3. The Lady of the House of Love
10.6.4. The Countess
10.6.5. vampires
10.7. mad/disturbed people
10.7.1. Marianna
10.7.1.1. Repetition of 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead!'
10.7.2. poetic voice in Alone
10.7.2.1. 'in the dawn / Of a most stormy life'
10.7.3. Porphyria's Lover
10.7.3.1. 'I listened with heart fit to break'
10.7.4. Dickinson persona
10.7.4.1. 'Than its interiror Confronting - / That Cooler Host-
10.7.5. Renfield
10.8. strong women
10.8.1. mother of the Bride
10.8.2. Tabi
10.8.3. Girl in the Erl-King
10.8.4. Mina Harker
10.9. young naive male hero
10.9.1. Jonathan Harker
10.9.2. The Piano Tuner
10.9.3. The Knight
10.9.3.1. 'I made a garland for her head, / And bracelets too'
10.9.4. Quincey Morris
11. Settings
11.1. forests
11.1.1. Snow Child
11.1.1.1. white
11.1.1.1.1. pool of blood
11.1.2. Erl King
11.1.3. Dracula
11.1.4. Company of the Wolves
11.2. castles
11.2.1. Supersition
11.2.2. Dracula
11.2.3. Marquis
11.2.4. Lady of The House of Love
11.3. cottage
11.3.1. Porppyria's Lover
11.3.2. Marianna
11.3.3. Erl King
11.4. liminal spaces
11.4.1. Erl King
11.4.2. Dracula
11.4.2.1. loss of bearing : day/night?
11.4.2.1.1. e.g. Marianna
11.4.3. Marquis
11.4.3.1. between water and land
11.4.3.1.1. 'amniotic'
11.4.3.2. Bloody chamber
11.4.3.3. Bedroom
11.4.3.4. library
11.4.4. Dickinson
11.4.4.1. running in forest
11.4.4.1.1. real?
11.4.5. bathroom
11.4.5.1. Mr Lyon
11.4.5.2. Bloody Chamber
11.5. mind
11.5.1. Dickinson
11.5.2. Alone
11.6. maze
11.6.1. Castle of Dracula
11.6.2. Dickinson
11.7. Transportation
11.7.1. train
11.7.1.1. Bloody Chamber
11.7.1.2. Dracula
11.7.2. Demeter in Dracula
11.7.3. carriage in Dracula
11.8. nature
11.8.1. meadow
11.8.1.1. LBDSM
11.8.2. garden in Mr Lyon
11.8.3. Moutains
11.8.3.1. Sublime in Superstition
11.8.3.1.1. 'Amid Alverna's high steeps'
11.8.3.2. Carpathians
11.8.3.3. Alone
11.9. city
11.9.1. London
11.9.1.1. Mr Lyon
11.9.1.2. Dracula
11.9.2. Whitby
11.9.2.1. ruined abbey
11.9.3. Italy
11.9.3.1. Bergam in Puss In Boots
11.9.3.2. Milan in Tiger's Bride