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Tag Archives: Victorian literature
Shadowlands: The Dark Origins of the Victorian Fairy, 17th April, 1.30 online
I will be giving a free online talk for the University of Hertfordshire’s Literature Research Seminar Series on Wed 17 April at 1.30. The concept of gothic has had an association with fairy from its inception; I’ll be exploring how … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM Research
Tagged fairies, fairy, Folklore, Gothic, Sam George, The Dead, Victorian literature
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CFPs: Sex and scandal, 1980s and sequels, Victorian popular fiction, Tolkien
Some more conference CFPs, with deadlines in February 1. Dark Economies: Sex, Scandal, and Sensation Falmouth University, UK (in partnership with City University, Hong Kong), 2-4 July 2024Deadline: 14 February 2024 Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is an interdisciplinary and global exploration … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged 1980s, adaptation, Genre, Gothic, medievalism, popular fiction, Romance, Romanticism, sensation fiction, serialisation, sex, Space, Tolkien, Victorian literature
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Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
Daisy Butcher, a member of OGOM and PhD student of Dr Sam George, has collaborated with friend of OGOM and University of Hertfordshire alumna, Janette Leaf to put together an exciting anthology of insect themed stories for the British Library’s … Continue reading
Posted in Publications
Tagged Gothic, horror, insect weird, insects, Victorian literature
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CFPs: Fairy tales and fantasy, The Neverending Story, theology, vampires, Asian Gothic, women and Satanism
Quite a few calls here for journal articles and chapters in edited collections. 1. CFP: Fairy Tales and Fantasy Fiction / Contes de fées et Fantasy, Fantasy Art and Studies journal. Deadline: 25 October 2021 (in French or English) For … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged Asian Gothic, fairytale, Fantasy, Feminism, popular culture, religion, Satanism, teaching, The Neverending Story, theology, Vampires, Victorian literature
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CFP ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic Encounters with Enchantment and the Fairy Realm in Literature and Culture, 8-10 April, 2021
University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 The Open Graves, Open Minds (OGOM) Project was launched in 2010 with the Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture conference.We have subsequently hosted symposia on Bram Stoker and John William Polidori, unearthing depictions … Continue reading
CfA: The Victorian Roots of Fantasy
A Call for Articles on the Victorian roots of fantasy for the journal Fantasy Art and Studies (deadline 10 December 2017). Undoubtedly the Victorian era was a fruitful period for the emergence of imaginative fiction. Now, at a moment when … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged fairytale, Fantasy, Folklore, George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, neo-Victorianism, steampunk, Victorian literature
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CFP: Call for Articles: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Screen Adaptations
And following my last post on Steampunk and Neo-Victorianism, there’s a call here for articles in a collected volume on Victorian and Neo-Victorian Screen Adaptations.
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged adapation, Film, Genre, Gothic, neo-Victorianism, TV, Victorian literature
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Franziska Kohlt, ‘Alice in the asylum: Wonderland and the real mad tea parties of the Victorians’
An excellent article here by Franziska Kohlt, ‘Alice in the asylum: Wonderland and the real mad tea parties of the Victorians‘. Franziska looks at the Alice books and the theme of madness in the context of both the recent Disney … Continue reading
CFPs and Talks
This an admin-esque post just drawing people’s attention to some CFPs and a talk that might be of interest to our followers. Firstly, there is a CFP for the Victorian Popular Fiction Association which will be holding its conference from … Continue reading