This week sees our third meeting this term (and ninth session overall, fact-fans) but before we get stuck into Lovecraft, here'sKate Gadsby Macesumming up our last session on Poe and Dickens and highlighting some of the points around which our conversation turned.*****Nineteenth-Century Horrors: Marriage, Madness and the Middle-ClassKate Gadsby MaceBeing buried alive is equated to … Continue reading Recollections – 2013-14 Session Two: Edgar Allen Poe’s "Berenice" (1835) and Charles Dickens’s "A Madman’s Manuscript" (1836)
Category: Retrospectives
Recollections – 2013-14 Session One: Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead
On the 16th of October the Gothic Reading Group held its first session of the 2013-14 academic year: screening and discussing Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead(2013). This was a first for us in a couple of other senses too: being the most contemporary 'text' we'd looked at together and our most graphic piece of 'horror' so … Continue reading Recollections – 2013-14 Session One: Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead
Through the Vaults: Remembering Last Year’s Meetings. . .
We hope all Gothic Reading Group members (old and new) are settling into their courses at Sheffield and enjoying encountering new texts, authors and subjects (Gothic or otherwise) as part of their studies. It is, of course, the first meeting of the Gothic Reading Group next week. We know people are busy getting to grips … Continue reading Through the Vaults: Remembering Last Year’s Meetings. . .
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