Sheffield Gothic is very excited to welcome you to our next reading group on vampire boyfriends and the Gothic imaginary. This reading group follows on from Sophie Haywood's Valentine's Day blog, which looked at the rise of vampires as romantic heroes in the modern day. We'll be meeting online at 3–4.30pm on Wednesday 20th April … Continue reading Reading Group: Vampire Boyfriends
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‘Til Death Do Us Part’: Teenage Girls and their Vampire Boyfriends
Our Holiday Gothic series takes a look at the darker sides of celebrations throughout the year. In this Valentine's Day post, Sophie Haywood investigates the recent trend of vampires as YA romantic heroes. The vampire has long been a key figure in Gothic fiction, but its transformation into romantic hero is a fairly recent phenomenon. … Continue reading ‘Til Death Do Us Part’: Teenage Girls and their Vampire Boyfriends
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: 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
The Haunting of Netflix Watch Parties
Our Everyday Gothic series explores day-to-day experiences that have reminded us of the Gothic – whether these were spooky, unsettling, or just a little odd. In this post, Megan Stephens talks about the ghostliness of watching a show at the same time as someone on the other side of the globe. I recently watched Netflix’s … Continue reading The Haunting of Netflix Watch Parties
The Gothic Epidemic
Across the centuries, the social and cultural impacts of epidemics have resonated with writers. Whether concerned with the spiritual implications of these catastrophic events, as in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), issues of individual versus collective responsibility, such as in Albert Camus’s The Plague (1947), or questions about the limitations and … Continue reading The Gothic Epidemic
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