Tag Archives: sublime

China Miéville: Beatrix Potter, Enid Blyton and the ‘pictureskew’

Posted on 18th June 2016 by William the Bloody

A very interesting essay by China Miéville on the dark side of the picturesque and English landscape in children’s literature.

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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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