Tag Archives: Gothic

CFP: Workshop on Dracula, Conference Education and Culture, Romania, June 2015

Posted on 22nd October 2014 by William the Bloody

CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS: Workshop WHERE’S THE PLACE OF DRACULA: (DE)CONSTRUCTING STEREOTYPES IN THE STUDY OF THE MYTHICAL SPACE IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS part of the International Conference Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture, West University of Timișoara, … Continue reading →

Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences | Tagged Bram Stoker, CFP, Conference, Dracula, education, Film, Gothic, History, horror, Romania, Space, violence, visual arts | Leave a comment

My hero: Mary Shelley by Neil Gaiman

Posted on 19th October 2014 by William the Bloody

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 | Leave a comment

Conference Report: Ann Radcliffe at 250

Posted on 19th October 2014 by William the Bloody

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 | Leave a comment

Let me grab your soul away – Kate Bush and gothic

Posted on 18th October 2014 by William the Bloody

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 | Leave a comment

The Evolution of the Female Vampire

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

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 | Leave a comment

Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes, and Traditions, 1760-1890

Posted on 17th October 2014 by William the Bloody

New book from Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Christina Morin and Niall Gillespie, on Irish Gothic literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.