Tag Archives: Eighteenth century

What do botany and vampirism have in common?

Posted on 19th April 2015 by Sam George

Literature and science is a field that has always interested me and Professor Martin Willis has just published Literature and Science: Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. This will be of interest to Company of Wolves delegates as it has a … Continue reading →

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Phantasmagoria : The Dark Side of the Light

Posted on 19th March 2015 by William the Bloody

A fascinating short film with Mervyn Heard on the spooky spectacle of the late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century phantasmagoria and its uncanny foreshadowings of cinematic thrills. If this whets your appetite, come to the OGOM Company of Wolves Conference in September–we will … Continue reading →

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Adam J Smith, ‘A True Accouneit of Sublime Terror and Paranormal Activity’

Posted on 16th November 2014 by William the Bloody

In this amusing and insightful blog entry, Dr Adam Smith muses on the eighteenth-century origins of terror and the sublime while watching the film Paranormal Activity 4, via Daniel Defoe and Ann Radcliffe.

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Dale Townshend, ‘An introduction to Ann Radcliffe’

Posted on 13th November 2014 by William the Bloody

An excellent and illuminating piece by Dr Dale Townshend, Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling, on the work of Ann Radcliffe, one of the pioneers of the Gothic novel.

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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 →

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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.

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