Tag Archives: John Polidori
Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil
What a fabulous conference Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil at the University of Sheffield was! Brilliant organisation by the wonderful Angela Wright and Madeleine Callaghan. I’m feeling that post-conference melancholy. Met some great new people and caught up with … Continue reading
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Tagged 1816, Byron, Frankenstein, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Shelley
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Before Bram: a timeline of vampire literature
More useful information from Roger Luckhurst on the origins of the vampire. This timeline illustrates the ethnographic and literary precursors of Stoker’s Dracula.
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Tagged anthropology, Bram Stoker, Byron, Calmet, Carmilla, Dracula, Folklore, John Polidori, Southey, Tournefort, Vampires, Varney the Vampyre
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Roger Luckhurst, ‘From Dracula to The Strain: Where do vampires come from?’
A brilliant, concise overview of the origins of contemporary vampire narratives by Prof, Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck College, London. He traces the vampire story from the Eats European accounts in the eighteenth-century through Polidori, Varney the Vampire, ‘Carmilla’ and (inevitably) … Continue reading
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Tagged Carmilla, del Torro, Dracula, Eighteenth century, John Polidori, race, TV, Vampires, Varney the Vampire
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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
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Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Romanticism, Shelley, Vampires
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Alexandra Campbell, ‘Review: Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines’
Alexandra Campbell, PhD student at the University of Glasgow, succinctly reviews here what looks to be an essential contribution to the critical literature on the vampire in literature and other media: Aspasia Stephanou’s book, Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blade, blood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Film, Gothic, John Polidori, Marx, race, science, sexuality, technology, True Blood, TV, Twilight, Ultraviolet, Underworld, Vampire Diaries, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
An account of that seminal moment when both Frankenstein and the literary vampire were born; part of BBC4’s season on Gothic. I’ve not watched this yet (not having a TV), but the very erudite Dr Angela Wright of the University … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, Gothic, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Nineteenth century, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Vampyr, Vampires
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Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
This looks excellent, though I’ve not watched it yet! The inspiring Dr Angela Wright from the University of Sheffield contributes to this programme on the origins of the literary vampire and of Frankenstein, which will be on iPlayer for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Shelley, Vampires
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My hero: Mary Shelley by Neil Gaiman
The fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discusses the wonder of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, Gothic, Gothic novel, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Monsters, Percy Shelley, SF
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The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
A very interesting article on the relationship between Byron and John Polidori, and the writing of the latter’s seminal vampire tale, The Vampyre.