2026 # 3 (77)
Strok A.Ye.
The Intertwining of Gothic Literary Tradition and Popular Victorian Philosophy in E. Bulwer-Lytton’s Short Story “The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain”
Abstract
The article analyses E. Bulwer-Lytton’s short story “The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain” (1859) and its connection to the key philosophical movements of Victorian age, such as spiritualism, positivism and empiricism. Adopting the formal features of Gothic fiction and retaining the elements of horror and mystery, the author reinterprets the Gothic tradition completely, using established literary conventions to express the philosophical tendencies of his era.
Key words
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Gothic, Gothic tradition, spiritualism, supernatural, epistemology, Victorian era
