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Author Archives: William the Bloody
CFP: Daughter of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire, University of Roehampton, 18 April 2015
Sam and I attended a great conference on vampires in TV, TV Fangdom, last year, organized by OGOM contributor Stacey Abbott with Lorna Jowett and Mike Starr at the University of Northampton. Now, the sequel has been announced: Daughter of … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences
Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CFP, Conference, gender, Genre, True Blood, TV, Vampire Diaries, Vampires, women
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A Scientific Guide to Seeing Fairies. A fragment.
A fascinating blog essay by Franziska Kohlt on Lewis Carroll, Victorian science, and the perception of fairies. Franziska Kohlt is a DPhil Candidate at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, and a graduate tutor in English literature at St … Continue reading
My hero: Mary Shelley by Neil Gaiman
The fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discusses the wonder of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, Gothic, Gothic novel, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Monsters, Percy Shelley, SF
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Conference Report: Ann Radcliffe at 250
A great review by Carly Stevenson, Lauren Nixon and Kathleen Hudson of the marvellous Ann Radcliffe at 250 Conference at the University of Sheffield in June this year by . I attended this conference, superbly organized by the University of … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged aesthetics, Ann Radcliffe, architecture, Conference, Eighteenth century, Gothic, Gothic novel, Jane Austen, landscape, poetry, Romanticism, sensibility, Victorian Gothic, visual art
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Let me grab your soul away – Kate Bush and gothic
A fascinating article tracing Gothic themes in Kate Bush’s songs and the allusions to Gothic cinema therein.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Emily Brontë, Film, Gothic, Hanry James, Horror Film, Intertextuality, Kate Bush, music, Stephen King, Wuthering Heights
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The Evolution of the Female Vampire
Jamie Spears, who is completing her PhD at the University of Sunderland, has written a fascinating account of the origins of female vampire here.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Female Gothic, Gothic, Gothic novel, lamia, mythology, succubi, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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Artistic Takes on 9 Classic Fairy Tales
Some witty and rather lovely pictorial reinterpretations of classic fairy tales.
Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes, and Traditions, 1760-1890
New book from Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Christina Morin and Niall Gillespie, on Irish Gothic literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Posted in Books and Articles, Publications
Tagged Eighteenth century, Genre, Gothic, Irish literature, Nineteenth century
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The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic
New book from Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Maria Beville, on the relation of Gothic to lived experience.
Posted in Books and Articles, Publications
Tagged Cultural Studies, Folklore, Gothic, History
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Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles 11 by Anne Rice
Coming soon (on 30 October 2014, appropriately): the new Anne Rice novel, Prince Lestat. Rice returns at last to the Vampire Chronicles series, which began twenty years ago with the classic Interview With the Vampire.