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Vampires and Victorians: Science and superstition in 19th-century London
When it comes to timing, I’ve had two fantastic strokes of luck as a novelist. The first was that I decided to bring my Dickens-related book, Tom-All-Alone’s, to a close at the end of November 1850....
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Waking the (un)dead: Myths, monsters, and remaking a classic text
When I published Murder at Mansfield Park in 2010 I did an interview about it on BBC radio, and I remember the almost breathless awe in the interviewer’s voice as she said, “This is your first novel,...
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The Current State of Experimental Gothic: Part One
Since the death of David Foster Wallace in 2008, there has been much discussion of the status of experimentation in contemporary literature. Zadie Smith’s article, “Two Paths for the Novel”, was...
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Review: Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines By Aspasia Stephanou Across the past two decades the classic Gothic figure of the Vampire has – despite their iconic solitary, elusive and secretive...
View ArticleCFP: The Contemporary Bad Guy, October 31, St Andrews
The Contemporary Bad Guy on October 31, 2015 “Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It’s invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails — a much more fearsome thing to watch...
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CfP: Haunted Europe, Leiden University, 9-10 June 2016
Call for Papers Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media 9 – 10 June 2016. Leiden University, The Netherlands Keynote speakers: Professor Robert...
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And never look in to my eyes; Gothic Surrealism in La Belle et la Bête (1946)
The term ‘surréaliste’, or surrealist, was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 in response to Jean Cocteau’s ballet Parade. It meant to Apollinaire ‘an attempt to reach beyond the limits of the...
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The lamb must learn to run with the tigers; La Belle et la Bête and The...
In my last post, I discussed the surrealist French film La Belle et la Bête, written and directed in 1946 by Jean Cocteau. Despite being a mainstream success and a critical darling in France and more...
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Female Gothic, Post-Colonialism, and The Icarus Girl
Since the Whig politician Horace Walpole first penned The Castle of Otranto in 1764, Gothic authors have been objecting to rigid social and political conventions and structures, questioning authority...
View ArticleGothic Literary Aesthetic II (from Gothic MOOC)
Hello, and welcome to the videos from the third week of our MOOC, The Gothic Revival, 1700–1850: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. We’ve got plenty of material in store for you, in a session devoted to...
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