Sheffield Gothic are excited to announce our first reading group back after the holidays, where we’ll be looking at Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Body Snatcher’ and Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger. These delightfully dark stories feature rogue anatomists in desperate pursuit of bodies for their dissection studies. We’ll be meeting online on Wednesday 9th February … Continue reading Reading group: Body Snatching and Unruly Anatomies
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The Dead Days: Epilogue
Happy New Year’s Eve! Thank you for joining us once again, at the end of the Dead Days, the end of the year. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our posts this week, and that your own Dead Days have been pleasant (if a little uncanny). Whatever your plans for tonight, whether you stay up to … Continue reading The Dead Days: Epilogue
The Dead Days: Shifting Genres
Photo by Adrien Olichon on Pexels.com Welcome back to our Dead Days series, where we’re delving into ideas of liminality and thresholds in the Gothic, inspired by the in-between nature of this time of year. For this post, we’ll be thinking about how the Gothic not only features many indefinable elements, but is often indefinable … Continue reading The Dead Days: Shifting Genres
The Dead Days: The Fin de siècle
Welcome back to the Dead Days: a time of year that always makes me think about thresholds, the jumping off-point from one space or time to the next. These liminal days between Christmas and New Year are always heavy with expectation, excitement, or dread for the year ahead, and it is here, in these Dead … Continue reading The Dead Days: The Fin de siècle
The Dead Days: Stories Within Stories
Welcome back to our Dead Days series, where we are revelling in the eerie in-between nature of the year’s end by thinking about ideas of liminality and thresholds in the Gothic. For today’s post, we’re looking at the boundaries which exist within texts: those between narratives, which readers cross over alongside characters. Opening Up The … Continue reading The Dead Days: Stories Within Stories
The Dead Days: Life and Death
Photo by Charles Parker on Pexels.com Welcome back to the Dead Days, and to the first of our posts exploring liminality and thresholds in the Gothic. Today, we’ll be thinking about the boundary between life and death, and those who exist in-between: the eerie undead. The undead crop up over and over in the Gothic, … Continue reading The Dead Days: Life and Death
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