Here is a link to the Second Paper Assignment. It is due on Tuesday, March 29th.
[Note: I'm still developing links for this page, but feel free to browse and get started. If you find a site or image set that you think would be useful, please do feel free to share the link with me and I can add it here. If you have a question about any images and whether they would work for this assignment, ask! Bridget_Marshall@uml.edu ]
Your first step should be to look for your images. You might spend some time with google image search using a variety of terms. For a less random experience, you might start here and choose a topic/area of interest and see where these links might take you.
If you find an image (whether through a google search or one of these pages) but it doesn't including information you need about the image, you might want to try a reverse image search, to see if there are other instances of this image that might provide more information. For instance, you may find an image you love on someone's blog, but they don't provide any information about it. Via a google image search, you may be able to locate the original (or other copies) at a museum or other collection, where you are more likely to find details about the image that will help you to create a strong paper.
Finding a random image on google can be frustrating, particularly if there's no identifying information. I recommend that you try to use more scholarly sources, such as museums and libraries, which do a good job (in most cases) of identifying their images and providing important context.
Images from the British Library
The British Library has a great piece on the "Origins of the Gothic" with some interesting illustrations from Gothic novels.
The British Library also has an awesome article on "Gothic Motifs" that features great images from their collections.
Really, the British Library is awesome. You should just go look at all of their collections on various aspects of the Gothic; you can find them all here: http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/themes/the-gothic
The British Library had an exhibitcalled Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination. The exhibit has since closed, but some online sources discuss it and provide some images. This article gives some background and includes some images. The Guardian also has this article, with some nice images.
Other Library/Museum Exhibitions
The University of Virginia has a great collection of early Gothics. See their exhibits Fearsome Ink (which is currently on view) or Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider.
Darkness & Light: Exploring the Gothic is an exhibition that recently closed at the University of Manchester Library with material available online.
Some paintings that might be of interest:
We talked in class quite a bit about Henri Fuseli's The Nightmare (1781)
American Gothic, (1930) by Grant Wood
The Tate Gallery in London has a great online exhibit: Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination that includes the Fuseli painting and many others. All the "rooms" are interesting, but Room 4: Gothic Gloom might be partiuclarly useful.
Castle of Otranto-Specific:
A paper toy theater version of the story from 1841 (as described in the blog of a collector).
My page of notes about Horace Walpole also has some images and links to sources.
What about some images from an original copy of The Castle of Otranto at the British Library.
Monk-Specific:
Here's some info about the cover image for our (Dover Thrift) edition.
There are three known portraits of author Matthew Lewis, found at the National Portrait Gallery.
Antonin Artaud created a set of tableau vivants based on the novel, which you can see here. The images date from the 1930s, and were intended as a first step towards a film; he abandoned the project but did produce his own translated version of the novel in French.
Frankenstein-specific:
My pages could be useful starting points (then follow some of those links) SEE: Cover images for various editions of Frankenstein and some images of Frankenstein in popular culture.
The National Institutes of Health's U.S. National Library of Medicine created a terrific exhibit, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, which has many great images of the medical sort. You can go straight to the thumbnails of all the images here: http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=2&action=browse
This page updated March 3, 2016. I will continue to update with additional suggestions.