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CFP Reminder: Gothic Style(s), Gothic Substance; Gothic Manchester Festival Conference, MMU, 28 October 2017
Just a reminder that the deadline for the Gothic Style(s), Gothic Substance; symposium at Gothic Manchester Festival Conference is soon. Here are the details again: Gothic Manchester Festival Conference Saturday 28 October 2017 Call for Papers Gothic Style(s), Gothic Substance After … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, Fashion, Film, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic literature, music, style, TV
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CFP: Gothic Style(s), Gothic Substance: Gothic Manchester Festival Conference, MMU, 28 October 2017
Gothic Manchester Festival Conference 2017 Saturday 28 October 2017 Call for Papers Gothic Style(s), Gothic Substance After the great success of last year’s Gothic North conference, our attention turns this year to the topic of Gothic Style(s). At the start … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, Fashion, Film, Goth music, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic literature, graphic novel, popular culture, style, TV
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The Obscure Cities
These illustrations from François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters’s series of graphic novels, Les Cités Obscures depict a marvellous steampunk-ish parallel world that I hope you find delightful. Thanks to the Messy Nessy Cabinet of Chic Curiosities website, which is full of treats … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, citiescapes, Fantasy, graphic novels, illustration, steampunk
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Gargoyles and Temptation
This is a fascinating piece from the always-wonderful Folklore Thursday on the history and significance of gargoyles. It begins and ends with the presence of these ambivalent creatures in popular culture, from a childhood memory of the animated series Gargoyles … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Folklore, gargoyles, Holly Black, Paranormal romance
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CFP Gothic Modernisms, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 29-30 June 2017
This looks a very interesting conference on Gothic Modernisms in Amsterdam.
Dale Townshend and MMU Gothic Festival
Two great news items from the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. First, the brilliant Dale Townshend, who has moved from Stirling to become Professor at MMU, will be giving his inaugural lecture, From ‘Castles in the Air’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Radcliffe, architecture, Eighteenth century, Film, Gothic, Gothic novel, horror
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Walpole: The House and the Letters
The New York Review of Books has in its latest issue an article by Geoffrey Wheatley, ‘Walpole: The House & the Letters’. It as the name suggests a look at Strawberry Hill, the Gothic abode Walpole engineered for himself, and his … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, architecture, Early Gothic, Enlightenment, Gothic, Gothic novel, Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill
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‘MOOC: The Gothic Revival, 1700-1850: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ Trailer
The University of Stirling (home of The Gothic Imagination blog) has released the trailer for its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘The Gothic Revival, 1700-1850: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’. The course is delivered by Dale Townshend and Peter Lindfield and it looks … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, architecture, Gothic, gothic courses, Gothic novel
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Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition, John Rylands Library, Manchester
Being in the centre of Manchester for the first time in months, I thought I’d drop in to the beautiful Victorian neo-Gothic John Rylands Library and see the Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition. It’s very, very good, with … Continue reading
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Tagged anatomy, architecture, art, Eighteenth century, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, Victorian Gothic
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CFP: “Expanding the Scope of Horror”
A Call for Articles for a special journal issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities exploring new approaches to the study of horror. The proposed set of essays and book reviews would have as its main objective to offer a new practical model … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, CFP, gender, horror, music, psychology, religion
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