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Tag Archives: Romanticism
Polidori Vampyre 200 Booking
Booking for the symposium for the bicentenary of John Polidori’s The Vampyre is now open–click here. It’s going to be a fabulous event: have a look here for full details and here for the programme of brilliant speakers.
Posted in Conferences, Events, OGOM News, OGOM: Polidori Symposium
Tagged Booking, Gothic, John Polidori, Romanticism, Vampires
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‘Polidori, the Byronic vampire & its progeny’ April 6th-7th 2019
‘Some curious disquiet’: Polidori, the Byronic vampire, and its progeny A symposium for the bicentenary of The Vampyre’ 6-7 April 2019, Keats House, Hampstead We’re beyond excited to announce our next event (above) in the spring. John Polidori published his … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences
Tagged Byron, John Polidori, Keats House, OGOM Project, Romanticism, vampire
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‘A devout but nearly silent listener’: dialogue, sociability, and Promethean individualism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)
My article, ‘”A devout but nearly silent listener”: dialogue, sociability, and Promethean individualism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)’, has been published in The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 16 (Autumn 2017) alongside other excellent articles. Here’s a brief … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, OGOM Research
Tagged dialogue, Frankenstein, Gothic novel, Mary Shelley, Prometheus, Romanticism
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Gothic Palgrave Handbook – Expressions of interest
Clive Bloom is calling for expressions of interest in contributing to this three-volume Gothic handbook. This this will be a very exciting project to be involved with. Please email Professor Bloom directly with ideas or any questions at: cbloom4189@aol.com: As … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged comics, contemporary Gothic, Eighteenth century, Film, Goth culture, Gothic, Gothic literature, horror, Romanticism, TV, twentieth century, Victorian
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CFP: The Shelley Conference, Institute for English Studies, London, 15 September 2017
Call for papers for a one-day conference on Percy Bysse Shelley and Mary Shelley: This one-day conference, held at the Institute for English Studies in central London, and supported by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, celebrates … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, poetry, Romanticism
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Maria Cohut, ‘Review: Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright’
Chris Riddel’s Goth Girl books are great fun, appealing to both young people and older people versed in literary knowledge. They’re wittily, pleasurably intertextual. Maria Cohut of the University of Warwick has written an enticing review here on the latest … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Children's literature, Gothic, Gothic novel, Intertextuality, parody, Romanticism, Victorian Gothic, YA Fiction
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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
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Romanticism, Shelley, Vampires
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Barry Forshaw ‘Sex and Death: Vampires from Coleridge to Hammer’
Instructive extract from Barry Forshaw’s British Gothic Cinema on the vampire theme in Gothic fiction from Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ through ‘Carmilla’ and dracula to its incarnation in cinema.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Carmilla, Coleridge, Dracula, Film, Gothic novel, Hammer horror, Romanticism, sexuality, Vampires
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Suzie Grogan, ‘From stanza to screen: How a Keats poem is inspiring 21st-century film makers’
An interesting short piece on contemporary film versions of Keats’s Gothic-styled demon lover poem, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci‘: La Belle Dame taps into the current focus on the supernatural in young adult fiction, and offers countless opportunities for interpretation … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged demon lovers, Keats, Paranormal romance, Romanticism, YA Fiction
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