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
Tag: 18th Century
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
Recollections – 2013-14 Session Six: Selections from John Stagg’s The Minstrel of the North
Last week the Gothic Reading Group met to discuss a selection of pieces by the largely forgotten Romantic poet, John Stagg. Much of the conversation revolved around Stagg's place in relation to an existing scholarly understanding of the 18th and 19th century Gothic. This has lead Mark to produce a longer blog post than usual, … Continue reading Recollections – 2013-14 Session Six: Selections from John Stagg’s The Minstrel of the North
Foreshadowings: John Stagg, A Forgotten Gothic Poet
This week the Gothic Reading Group will boldly go where (to the best of our knowledge) no scholars have gone before as we tackle the forgotten Romantic-era poet, John Stagg. Ahead of the session Mark has been pondering where best to situate Stagg in our existing sense of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic writing and doing … Continue reading Foreshadowings: John Stagg, A Forgotten Gothic Poet
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. . .
Reflections – Eighteenth Century Gothic and Contemporary Horror Cinema
One of things we try to achieve in the Gothic Reading Group is a balance of different media, including non-print materials. This allows us to reflect a little on what kind of legacy or influence the "Gothic" exerts in different mediums and in different periods: asking what it is that makes a text "Gothic" or … Continue reading Reflections – Eighteenth Century Gothic and Contemporary Horror Cinema
