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Author Archives: William the Bloody
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
Posted in exhibitions
Tagged anatomy, architecture, art, Eighteenth century, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, Victorian Gothic
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UPDATE: Extended Deadline: Monstrous Messengers 17 Aug. 2015
Chapters still required for this collection of essays on ‘supernatural figures in children’s picture books and early readers’, edited by Leslie Ormandy. For this collection, three more papers from any discipline are welcome; however, advantaged are those focusing on a … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged CFP, Children's literature, education, gender, Ghosts, illustration, Monsters, religion, Vampires, Werewolves
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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: An on-line annotated edition
This looks a fantastic resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: An online annotated edition featuring twelve Lewis Carroll scholars taking one chapter each, plus illustrations and remixes from the classic 1865 and … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Resources
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Children's literature, illustration, Lewis Carroll
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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
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged architecture, art, CFP, gender, horror, music, psychology, religion
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Company of Wolves Programme: latest version
We’ve made a slight change to the Conference Programme–please take a look here. Further updates on Fees, and Travel and Accommodation will be appearing very soon, so keep an eye on alerts and Tweets, etc.
Company of Wolves: Conference Programme v2
We have revised the Company of Wolves conference programme to take into account the requirements of some of our delegates, so please have a look at the new version.
Company of Wolves: Conference Timetable
As well as the full Conference Programme (which can also be downloaded in PDF format), we have a page with a handily abbreviated Conference Timetable (again, with a PDF version). These pages are only provisional but we hope they give … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Conference, Werewolves, Wild children, Wolves
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Company of Wolves: Conference Programme
The provisional programme for the Company of Wolves conference is now up on this website: select ‘Conference Programme‘ from the ‘Company of Wolves’ menu (or click on the link). Most of the abstracts are now viewable from the ‘Session Speakers … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Animals, Conference, Werewolves, Wolves
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Spectral Visions: Grim Fairy Tales
From the Spectral Visions Press at the University of Sunderland comes this new anthology of Gothic reworkings of fairy tales, edited by Colin Younger, designed by David Newton, introduced by Ian Rowan, and with fabulous illustrations by Katie Loyd. Oh, … Continue reading
CFP: ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, University of Sheffield, 24-27 June, 2016
I’m very much looking forward to this conference, ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, celebrating that moment of the Shelley-Byron circle when both Frankenstein and the literary vampire were born ‘The year without a summer’, as 1816 was known, was … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Romanticism, Shelley, Vampires
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