‘The year without a summer’, as 1816 was known, was the year in which Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin (later Shelley), Lord Byron, John Polidori and Claire Claremont came together, for the first time, in Geneva. This meeting of five creative minds at Lake Geneva in 1816 has been the subject of several films and … Continue reading CFP: The Summer of 1816 Conference
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Events, Projects, People, Publications: The Centre for the History of the Gothic
The Centre for the History of the Gothic was inaugurated in June 2014 and brings together colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities who have an interest in the historical and national contexts in which the Gothic of the eighteenth century emerges and the influence that it had on the nineteenth century Gothic. … Continue reading Events, Projects, People, Publications: The Centre for the History of the Gothic
Announcing: The Dark Arts Journal
The Dark Arts Journal: New and Emerging Voices in Gothic Studies is a new platform which exists to publish and promote upcoming and emerging voices in the exciting field of Gothic Studies. The journal is affiliated to Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies and to The Centre for the History of the Gothic, based at Sheffield … Continue reading Announcing: The Dark Arts Journal
The Austen Connection: Or, how misreading Northanger Abbey as a teenager ruined my life
I never intended to be a Gothicist. Which might be stating the obvious, because I doubt many small children look off wistfully into the distance about their dream to become an academic specialising in the Gothic. When we started discussing re-launching this blog, it made me think about how I ended up not only part … Continue reading The Austen Connection: Or, how misreading Northanger Abbey as a teenager ruined my life
Travel Back in Time to a Very Gothic Nineteenth Century: GRG meets the Nineteenth Century Reading Group
The Gothic Reading Group, or the GRG, is without a doubt the best reading group the University of Sheffield has to offer. Ok, I’ll admit I may be a littlebit biased here. But while I am an avid fan and regular attendee of the GRG, this post is actually about another reading group at the … Continue reading Travel Back in Time to a Very Gothic Nineteenth Century: GRG meets the Nineteenth Century Reading Group
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