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Author Archives: William the Bloody
Spectral Visions: The Creative Journey
The Spectral Visions group of Gothic researchers at the University of Sunderland have started a new blog to document their creative activities. Dr Alison Younger and Jenah Colledge very kindly asked me to contribute, so I’ve written a frivolous Walpurgisnacht … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Writing, Resources
Tagged Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, poetry
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The First Global Fairy Census Wants To Hear About Your Close Encounters
A fascinating account by Jess Zimmerman of investigation into the existence of and encounter with fairies.
Posted in Resources
Tagged anthropology, ethnography, Faeries, fairies, Folklore, science, sexuality
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CFP — Edited collection: Gender, Race and Sexuality in The Walking Dead
From Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania: praise for the blog and a call for articles in a volume on The Walking Dead: Hi Bill–I am very much enjoying the Open Graves blog! Anyway, wondering if you’d consider posting this CFP … Continue reading
Genevieve Valentine, ‘How the vampire became film’s most feminist monster’
A fascinating essay by Genevieve Valentine on the shifting nature of the powerful and ambivalent female vampire in cinema.
Roger Luckhurst, ‘Why bother reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula?’
And again, Roger Luckhurst! This time, a succinct essay on the significance of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, placing it in the context of late nineteenth-century Britain and anxieties over Empire and otherness.
Posted in Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged AIDS, blood, Bram Stoker, disease, Dracula, Empire, otherness, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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Before Bram: a timeline of vampire literature
More useful information from Roger Luckhurst on the origins of the vampire. This timeline illustrates the ethnographic and literary precursors of Stoker’s Dracula.
Posted in Resources
Tagged anthropology, Bram Stoker, Byron, Calmet, Carmilla, Dracula, Folklore, John Polidori, Southey, Tournefort, Vampires, Varney the Vampyre
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Roger Luckhurst, ‘The birth of the vampyre: Dracula and mythology in Early Modern Europe’
An extract here from Roger Luckhurst’s excellent introduction to the OUP World’s Classics edition of Dracula. The notion that the vampire is universal and archetypal is debunked, and its origins shown to lie in the Enlightenment response to folkloric panics … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged Bram Stoker, Calmet, Dracula, Eastern Europe, Eighteenth century, Enlightenment, Folklore, Marx, Vampires, Voltaire
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Maria Cohut, ‘Review: Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright’
Chris Riddel’s Goth Girl books are great fun, appealing to both young people and older people versed in literary knowledge. They’re wittily, pleasurably intertextual. Maria Cohut of the University of Warwick has written an enticing review here on the latest … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Children's literature, Gothic, Gothic novel, Intertextuality, parody, Romanticism, Victorian Gothic, YA Fiction
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An Exploration of Eighteenth Century and Victorian Gothic Literature Displays With the Exhibition Curators
If you not yet seen the fabulous Darkness and Light Exhibition on Gothic culture at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, do go if you can. But why not go along to this event on 23 October (15.00-16.00) and see … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Eighteenth century, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, Victorian Gothic
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Various CFPs: October 2015
There are a few CFPs for conferences and publications nearing their deadline, so I’m bundling them together on this page: Domestic Entanglements in the Works of Joss Whedon (Edited Collection) (Deadline: 1 Nov 2015) Call for Papers Haunted Europe: Continental … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged CFP, fantastic, Fantasy, Film, Genre, Gothic, Joss Whedon, new media, postcolonialism, technology
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