Category Archives: Books and Articles
Young Adult Gothic Fiction, Vampire Dystopia
Another excellent edited collection which I am grateful to be included in is now out from University of Wales Press: Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others, ed. by Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi (Cardiff; University of Wales Press, … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, dystopia, Genre, Holly Black, Hunger Games, neoliberalism, Paranormal romance, Vampires, YA Gothic
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Matizes do gótico: Three centuries of Horace Walpole – Two kinds of Romance
I’m very honoured to have my chapter ‘“Two kinds of romance”: Generic hybridity and epistemological uncertainty in contemporary paranormal romance’ included in this beautiful new book from Brazil: Matizes do gótico: três séculos de Horace Walpole, ed. by Júlio França … Continue reading
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Tagged Alyxandra Harvey, fairies, Genre, Gothic novel, Horace Walpole, Intertextuality, Julie Kagawa, Paranormal romance, science, Vampires, YA Gothic
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Werewolves and Wildness
Woo hoo we’re excited to announce that OGOM’s Dr Sam George and Dr Bill Hughes have edited the first ever issue of Gothic Studies on werewolves and it is out now from Edinburgh University Press: ‘Werewolves and Wildness’ 21.1 (May … Continue reading
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Tagged Werewolves, Wild children, wildness, Wolves
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Review: Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic, edited by Robert McKay and John Miller (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017. 272 pages). The eleven essays in McKay and Miller’s Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic focus on a creature that has already been analysed … Continue reading
Stranger Things: Flower-Headed Monsters
New addition to OGOM doctoral studies, Daisy Butcher, has just published an interesting article in the Medical Health and Humanities Journal entitled ‘Stranger Things: Maternal Body Horror’ The monster in Stranger Things, the demogorgon, who resides in the ‘Upside Down’ that … Continue reading
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Tagged Daisy Butcher, Orchid symbolism, plant monsters, stranger Things
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Grave Desires: Samplers, Sensibility and the Language of Flowers
Miranda Lennon has been collecting verses from the graves of eighteenth and nineteenth-century women and embroidering them into beautiful bespoke samplers. The verses, considered mawkish or sentimental by some, convey a beautiful sensibility around death and mourning and preserve the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Sam George, Language of Flowers, Miranda Lennon, Women and Botany
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‘Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears’
Last year I was lucky enough to contribute to this wonderful project: Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears, edited by Matt Cardin. I’m delighted to say that it is being released today. … Continue reading
New book: Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic, ed. by Robert McKay and John Miller
We’re pleased to announce this forthcoming collection of essays from the University of Wales Press’s excellent Gothic Literary Studies series, Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic, ed. by Robert McKay and John Miller, due out September 2017. I should declare an interest: … Continue reading
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Tagged Dracula, Gothic, Maggie Stiefvater, Werewolves, Wolves
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Wonder Woman and Her Influence
A fascinating essay by Michele Kennerly and Carly S. Woods, ‘Wonder Woman and Her Influence‘, which takes an unusual approach through Classical Studies and rhetoric, considering the reception of the iconic feminist superheroine and exploring the stress on persuasion that surrounds … Continue reading
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Tagged classical studies, comics, Feminism, Film, Greek myth, rhetoric, superheroes, Wonder Woman
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Struwwelpeter — Original Illustrations
An interesting essay by Sarah Lascow on the cautionary tales of Heinrich Hoffman, including, most notably, ‘Struwwelpeter’: ‘The 19th-Century Book of Horrors That Scared German Kids Into Behaving‘. The tales influenced WH Auden and inspired Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands. Some … Continue reading
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Tagged cautionary tales, Children's literature, illustration, Struwwelpeter, Tim Burton
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