It is in this liminality that Dickinson crafts a stunning exploration of seaside life which is as unsettlingly accurate yet wholly detached as living beside the sea ever could be. Having never seen the sea, Dickinson relied on her imagination to create the sense of awe she imagined she would be struck by, yet instead her poem reads as a regular exploration of an everyday place as much as it is a description of the great and powerful ocean. Poetry: Emily Dickinson, I started Early-Took my Dog. She explores his insecurities and weaknesses as much as his cunning manipulations, painting a graphic picture of a broken man as divided as the coastal retreats where he spends his time. Highsmith shows us not so much how Ripley came to be a psychopath, but instead what a psychopath truly is. The Talented Mr Ripley is a thriller, a study in psychology, and a literary masterpiece all at once. There are crime novels which detail how criminals operate, and there are character studies considering what makes a person immoral or amoral, and then there is Highsmith’s sublime seaside novel which does both and so much more. Fiction: Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley These examples are all regarded as ground-breaking literature, and for this quarter are all written predominantly by women. For this quarterly online feature I will highlight three seaside gothic works-fiction, poetry, and nonfiction-and an example from another form of media.
Seaside Gothic represents the epitome of seaside gothic literature, which is both a genre of its own and a classification of other writing that features many notable works.
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