Category Archives: Publications
Amazing offer! 50% or more discount on In the Company of Wolves book
We’ve been posting about the book launch for OGOM’s latest publication, In the Company of Wolves: Wolves, Werewolves, and Wild Children. If you attend the book launch, you will be able to buy the book at 50% discount (possibly more–it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, Book launch, Neil Jordan, Shapeshifters, Werewolves, Wild children, Wolves
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New book: Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson (eds.), Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out
This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Darwin, Donna Haraway, ecocriticism, Gothic, nature
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Book Received: Cerys Crossen, The Nature of the Beast: Transformations of the Werewolf from the 1970s to the Twenty-First Century
The werewolf in popular fiction has begun to change rapidly. Literary critics have observed this development and its impact on the werewolf in fiction, with theorists arguing that the modern werewolf offers new possibilities about how we view identity and … Continue reading
Book Received: Xavier Aldana Reyes, Gothic Cinema
Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim … Continue reading
Book Received: John B. Kachuba, Shapeshifters: A History
There is something about a shapeshifter – a person who can transform into an animal – that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, … Continue reading
Something to Howl About: OGOM Gothic Studies Special Issue, ‘Werewolves and Wildness’
We’re excited to announce that we have submitted our special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Werewolves, Wild Children and Wilderness‘ to Edinburgh University Press for publication in May, 2019. This is the first of two publications that have developed from … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM: The Company of Wolves, Publications
Tagged feral children, Gothic Studies, Werewolves, Wild children, wildness
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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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Journal; Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
I’ve come across a peer-reviewed journal which may be well be of interest to OGOM followers: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. A rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft draws from a broad spectrum of perspectives, methods, and disciplines, offering … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, Folklore, magic, ritual, witchcraft, witches
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Fantastika Journal
The first issue of Lancaster University’s Fantastika Journal is now available here–it looks really good, with interesting critical essays and a substantial review section. There’s a link to it in the Journals category on the right-hand side of the Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged fantastic literature, Fantasy, globalisation, journals, postcolonialism, SF
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Folklore and Fiction: Hybrid Creatures from the Owl Man to the Demon Dog
I am always pleased to find references to English folklore so I just wanted to make mention of this lively and accessible article by Nic Rigby from the BBC site. Serpents, Owl Men and Demon Dogs discusses the way British writers have … Continue reading