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Tag Archives: Gothic novel
Review of British Library Gothic Study Day
I’m starting this year by looking backwards towards the end of last year which seems oddly suitable as a scholar of the Gothic. Early in December 2014, though it seems longer ago, I attended the Gothic Study Day at the … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Reviews
Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Enlightenment, Fashion, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, Jane Austen, music, Southern Gothic, travel narratives, Twilight
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Rachey Taylor: A Review of Xavier Aldana Reyes’ Body Gothic (2014)
Rachey Taylor, PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle, enthusiastically reviews OGOM contributor and member of The Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies Xavier Aldana Reyes‘s new book, Body Gothic here; it looks fascinating.
Posted in Books and Articles, Reviews
Tagged body Gothic, Gothic novel, horror, Horror Film
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Adam J Smith, ‘A True Accouneit of Sublime Terror and Paranormal Activity’
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.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Daniel Defoe, Eighteenth century, Gothic, Gothic novel, horror, Horror Film, sublime
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Dale Townshend, ‘An introduction to Ann Radcliffe’
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.
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Eighteenth century, French Revolution, Genre, Gothic, Gothic novel, horror, Romance, Romanticism, terror
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Neil McRobert, ‘The Current State of Experimental Gothic: Part One’
A very interesting blog post by Neil McRobert, the first part of a discussion on postmodern experimental Gothic fiction (of which Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000) is exemplary).
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Genre, Gothic, Gothic novel, House of Leaves, postmodernism
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“There is no escape.” Horace Walpole and the terrifying rise of the Gothic
Nick Groom on the trajectory from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) to present-day Gothic culture. The rise of the Gothic novel to horror and SF film and Goth music and fashion, with a glance at architecture, are all … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged architecture, Film, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, Horace Walpole, Horror Film, SF, Victorian Gothic
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I Wonder: BBC Timeline of Gothic Fiction
Brilliant Timeline of Gothic Fiction with some pleasing visuals and useful links. Just in time for Halloween (Dr Catherine Spooner, contributor to OGOM, was the BBC’s consultant)
Study Day: Celebrating Ann Radcliffe, Chawton House Library, Saturday 8th November 2014
This will be a great event in a beautiful setting: In the year of the 250th birthday, enjoy two talks on Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) by Prof. Emma Clery and Dr Angela Wright.
Franklin Gregory, The White Wolf (1941)
A new edition of Franklin Gregory’s werewolf novel, The White Wolf (1941), from the excellent independent publisher, Valancourt Books, who have made available a great range of neglected Gothic texts.
My hero: Mary Shelley by Neil Gaiman
The fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discusses the wonder of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Byron, Frankenstein, Gothic, Gothic novel, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Monsters, Percy Shelley, SF
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