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Off to read the description box! This was awesome. Love all the subcategories in contemporary! I found a Gothic Western, quite accidentally 😂 it arrived today.

Still really want that Cambridge Companion to Gothic Lit! I have the Virginia Woolf one ❤And woah, Gothic Bodies sounds cool!

Sorry for all the comments lol but it’s so funny: I was JUST thinking of the King’s General the other day. I read it YEARS ago, and loved it, but I can’t remember why it’s Gothic. I’ve read a ton of her works.

I’m pretty sure I also have those Melville short stories (is it SAD I’m losing track of my stock?) After finishing Moby Dick, I’ve thought more than once it’s sort of Gothic. Do you agree??

Oh man, I was considering rereading Beloved too!

Yes, exactly! November is MEH 😂

Woot, awesome decks! Hope you had fun with the creation process. I know I always do, even though MPC can be a pain sometimes 😆

A great reading list

Notes about Gothic Literature ✓American Gothic Fiction Alan Lloyd-Smith (library textbook): “the message of Gothic…is that it isn’t so much a matter of whether you can repeat the past as whether the past will repeat itself in you” (p.1) “But in this enigmatic American erosion the Gothic object is allowed its own life, remaining stubbornly resistant to interpretation, however persuasive” (p.74) “A all these instances suggest, domestic Gothic is intimately bound up with the idea of the house, gender, and the family, which becomes, through metaphor, a way of externalizing the inner life of fictional characters” (p.102) ‘“The past isn’t dead,” says one of Faulkner’s characters, “it isn’t even past,” which might serve as a motto for American Gothic itself as it explores the tensions between a culturally sanctioned progressive optimism and an actual dark legacy.’ (p.118) ✓Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic, Edited by Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte “Initially, it is fair to say, the Gothic emerged as a way of responding to the unfamiliar by demonizing and even fetishizing the “unknown” - be it human or landscape. Often this monstrous presence was figured as an Indigenous one - a danger lying just beyond the garrison but not sufficiently removed. Over time, Canadian writers began to appropriate this force, to bend it to a national purpose, and to map the parameters of an identity that might embrace what was resonantly local so that the Gothic became a way to insist on, rather than deny, a colonial history. In effect, the gothic mode was used to articulate a suitably “haunted” version of the Canadian identity, one that lent the Canadian locale a “feel” of authenticity because it had been rendered “(un)homely” (that is, both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time).” (p.xvii) ‘“The white Canadian looks at the Indian. The Indian is Other and therefore alien. But the Indian is indigenous and therefore cannot be alien. So the Canadian must be alien. But how can the Canadian be alien within Canada? -Terry Coldie, Fear and Temptation’ (Brian Johnson, p.25). “Since 2001,,...much important work has been done on the Gothic in English-Canadian literature, including Justin Edwards’s Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (2005) and a 2006 special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly, guest edited by Marlene Goldman and Joanne Saul. Most relevant to this essay is Jodey Castricano’s ‘Learning to Talk with Ghosts: Canadian Gothic and the Poetics of Haunting in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach,’” (Jennifer Andrews, p.206). ✓Gothic Literature by Sue Chaplin “Recent work in Gothic criticism has argued that the Gothic ought not to be defined in terms of its emotional or aesthetic effect, or even regarded as a literary ‘genre’ at all (that is to say, as a class of texts conforming to particular conventions of content and/or style). Rather, it should be considered a ‘mode’ of writing that responds in certain diverse yet recognisable ways to the conflicts and anxieties of its historical moment and that is characterised especially by its capacity to represent individual and societal traumas” (p.4) “These Gothic interventions into other genres of literature are discussed in Part Three…and it will be seen that during this period the mutable quality of the Gothic became, paradoxically, one of its characteristics features; ‘paradoxically’ because the very quality of mutability is what makes it so difficult to ‘characterise’ the Gothic, to identify its defining qualities as a literary category.” (p.20) Painting: The Passage of St Gothard by Salvator Rosa Byron’s poems Giaour and Manfred Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother “Gothic tends to foreground what other forms of writing (the realist novel, for example) often seek to conceal: that its narratives are not necessarily trustworthy; that literary conventions bear a slippery relationship to the ‘truths’ they mean to communicate.” (p.182) “In [Jane Eyre and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’], women are portrayed as susceptible to madness, but their mental trauma is not depicted as somehow innate to their femininity; rather, it is related to and emanates from social situations that render the female protagonist vulnerable, alienated and desperate.” (p.213)

One of my favorite things about this tag is seeing people alter it to fit their interests! This is such a neat TBR and I feel so honored you're participating. Tropical gothic as a subgenre? Yes please!

Urban Crow Oracle goes with all kinds of decks. I put it with Little Bird Tarot. It was perfect!

The crafted ends oracle is perfect for fall asthetic, enjoyed watching this Nicole 🌞

I love your Couples decks!

That Death Doula deck is fab! Thanks for participating ❤ It was great to see your choices

‘In my mind I live in a cottage in the woods’ ❤❤❤

That shadow myths deck (did i get the name right?) talk about nightmares! But it’s so interesting! I like it. Death Doula is a deck I continue to ‘almost buy’ and then I don’t. I don’t know why. I understand the concept and I love the images!

I hear you on envying people with tattered decks because I feel the same way. I’m just precious about things (and I probably have too many to be using any single deck consistently enough to beat up). I’m this way with my books too; I handle them very delicately while reading, but it doesn’t hamper my reading experience! Lol

omg Evil Roots! I'm so eager to see what you think about that book. It's been on my TBR for awhile now. This is such a cool book haul and v inspiring.

You always have the most interesting books! I can’t wait to read more Angela Carter. Maybe I should do that for #gothlitnovember. Ooo that Cambridge Companion to Ulysses! Want! Yes, that was me re: On Being Ill. I plan on talking about it a little if/when I get around to my books read recently video… I’m so bad at making videos lately 😩

This IS so exciting! And I’m excited for you! These decks are so cool. 😍😍😍

Fantastic wrap up! So many pretty covers.

Thank you so much for participating in bingo!! Happy reading 📚 ❤

Wowwww! 🥹 I love this so much! Thanks for sharing! 💗 Mari

UA-cam just notified me about this video from you! WTH. I can't wait to respond. Thank you! This was such a fun video to watch.

Loved every minute of this. I find squirrels endlessly entertaining myself. They often distract me from my tasks when I’m working from home 😂So you have family members on your back too re: the amount of books in your collection? My mom still suggests I have too many. I love the library but I don’t use it enough. I’ll visit with my daughter, but I don’t take anything out, and this is because i have an overwhelming amount of things to read at home. I love that you still have such a detailed memory of story time at your public library ❤ and I’m sorry for your repressed childhood, that must have been something else… I can’t even begin to imagine. Your hair looks beautiful btw!

Hi! We love the name of your channel ! Thanks so much for doing our tag! We love the library and so glad to hear that you do too! That damn pandemic ruined everything. Ugh. Great video !!! 🐿️

I loved your choices! 😊 The whole video was cozy ❤

I love the Herbal Tarot.. 😍 well done you..

Beautiful decks - well done!

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That's so cool! Congrats! Love the card backs on the runes deck.

Thank you for sharing!

Gravity’s Rainbow is supposed to be super challenging. I’m so curious! 👀 I think I should look up the Louise Penny books, they sound like fun!

Ah!! I can’t believe you found that Nabokov book! I’ve looked for it too!

I have the literary witches book and deck too, and I read Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus last year and WOWZA was it GOOD. Haven’t read any of her other works yet.

How delightful! I'm so glad you did this tag. Hooray for libraries (and access to books in whatever way)!

Ha! You mentioned Scrabble: My daughter and are in the middle of a game right now. Our favorite game! 😊❤

Your herbal garden looks amazing! ❤

Coffee, books, and tarot? I hit that subscribe button so fast! Thank you so much for doing the tag.

Wow, so many interesting books. I think I need to read Blood …. I struggle a lot with my period. My gosh yes, Orlando is so re-readable. You’re making me want to read it again, and I’ve already read it 4 times. I highly recommend the film too, it’s BEAUTIFUL and I love the soundtrack ❤ I read some more Byron too recently, speaking of which, did you know Edna O’Brien wrote a book on him? It’s called Byron in Love I think … I have a copy 😂 (I’m laughing at the amount of books I own which I still need to read).

♥️ !!! So nice to see you! 😊

Its so lovely to see you front of camera...love Bronte and as female author's..Braiding Sweet grass is a favourite along with her book on moss. HEARTSWOOD stole my heart ❤ Gothbook November! Lorna Doone ! Looove 📚📚📚📚

I loved seeing your selection of decks. The Tarot of Persephone’s Garden looks beautiful!

Omg I want to know what you think of the brontes! Which is your fave book?

Do you know about the opera tarot??

I need to reread Unbearable Lightness too

The construction noise sounds like a horror film or video game

I would love to read thru literary witches oracle !!! Getting this book

Rubys mug!!!! 🥲