We were asked to promote the following event here at the Uni of Sheffield - a lecture with a drink reception afterwards! 📚🍷 Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture A free public lecture with Professor Michael Gamer 13th December 2024, 6pm-8pm Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Mappin St, Sheffield, S1 4DT TICKETS HERE * In the final decade of the eighteenth … Continue reading Lecture: Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture
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Spooky Halloween Picks: Art
Sheffield Gothic presents: our Spooky Art Picks for Halloween! Its a Gothicists favourite time of the year, so what better time than Halloween to share some of our favourite spooky recommendations! Whether you prefer Terror Gothic or Horror Gothic, if you like your frights to be strictly PG, or if you just need a break from slaying all that evil – settle in with our spooky picks. And if you like any of our recommendations, or want to share some of your own, don't forget to tweet us at @SheffieldGothic!
Gothic Adaptations: Wuthering Heights
As 2018 marks the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth it seems like the perfect time to re-read Wuthering Heights (1847). Ahead of the next GRG, Hannah Moss (a self-professed Wuthering Heights super-fan) takes us through some of the best (and worst) adaptations of Brontë’s novel… No question about it Wuthering Heights has to be one of … Continue reading Gothic Adaptations: Wuthering Heights
Gothic Bible: The Theo-Aesthetics of the Early British Gothic
The following post by Holly Hirst is part of an ongoing 'Gothic Bible Blog Series' and part of the Gothic Bible project, a collaborative project run by Sheffield Gothic and SIIBS at the University of Sheffield, and also the University of Auckland. You can find out more about the project here, and if you want … Continue reading Gothic Bible: The Theo-Aesthetics of the Early British Gothic
Forshadowings: Religious Gothic and ‘The Monk’ by Matthew Lewis
Last week, Sheffield Gothic had its first meeting of the new semester, screening the 1947 film Black Narcissus, based on Rumer Godden's 1939 novel of the same name. It was a brilliant film about madness and desire in an isolated convent full of troubled nuns. Afterwards we discussed surveillance within convent life and how the … Continue reading Forshadowings: Religious Gothic and ‘The Monk’ by Matthew Lewis
“A Night-Piece on Death”
‘Graveyard Poetry’ is an often-cited influence on the early Gothic, but the poems themselves are rarely addressed in that context beyond their use of funereal imagery. Thomas Parnell’s “A Night-Piece on Death” is usually identified as the earliest example of the genre, first published (posthumously) in 1721 or 1722.The poem itself is a simple iambic … Continue reading “A Night-Piece on Death”
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