Tupper, Devin Robert; (2024) Lives Between: a Novel of Critical Gothic Authorship and New Methodologies in Creative Criticism. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

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Abstract

With the rise of Gothic fiction in the late eighteenth-century, an authorship, separate from the Romantic author of the time, begins to form. Gero Guttzeit designated this change in authorship as a Gothic authorship which occurred in the early nineteenth-century. I will argue, however, that this change in authorship also carried on into the fin de siècle and is even present in the twenty-first century. In support of my position, I will leverage Friedrich Kittler’s reading of Dracula (1897) and Hilary Grimes’s work on haunted writing in the work of Henry James to demonstrate how Gothic authorship is more than an antithesis to Romantic authorship and means of reading, as Guttzeit stipulates, and is instead also a socially-engaged and politically-driven writing mode. Through the development of writing technology from its mechanization (nineteenth and twentieth century) towards its digitization (twentieth and twenty-first century), I will demonstrate how Gothic authorship acts as a means of reading and expression of writing in response to core changes in these technologies, and how such response is applicable towards anxieties and pressures around self-censorship and identity that authorship experiences today. To do so, however, I propose a new approach is needed to study the most recent iteration of Gothic authorship to account for modern authorship’s current unstable, transmittable, and blurred state brought on by digital writing technology. By drawing parallels between Creative Criticism and the Gothic mode, the new methodology considers Gothic authorship as a writing mode, and recontextualizes it under the new identifier ‘critical Gothic authorship’, providing a new means in which scholarship can directly engage with authorship and interrogate a haunted modern authorial voice through the writing of a novel. Lives Between, such a novel, demonstrates the method in action, and its effect on the discourse it aims to interrogate.

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