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Generation Dead: Consuming the Vampire – Holly Black’s ‘The Coldest Girl in Coldtown’

Posted on 26th October 2016 by firekrank

At the end of the lecture on Sedgwick, I told the group that in many ways Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (2013) was the opposite to the Sedgwick text, My Swordhand is Singing (discussed here). This meant that … Continue reading →

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Teen Gothic: P is for Paranormal – Still

Posted on 21st February 2016 by Sam George

  There has never really been a consensus about how we might define ‘paranormal’ or ‘dark romance’ and the ways it might differ from ‘urban fantasy’, or indeed how ‘dark fantasy’ is distinguishable from horror. Vampires are notably excluded from … Continue reading →

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