The Modern Prometheus or Frankenstein, as it is more generally known as, was a novel written by Mary Shelley in 1818. In 1816, Mary her husband Percy and Lord Byron set out to have a competition on who could write the best horror story. After days of planning and thinking, Shelley wrote her novel on … Continue reading A brief overview of Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus and its history
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The Dead Days: Stories Within Stories
Welcome back to our Dead Days series, where we are revelling in the eerie in-between nature of the year’s end by thinking about ideas of liminality and thresholds in the Gothic. For today’s post, we’re looking at the boundaries which exist within texts: those between narratives, which readers cross over alongside characters. Opening Up The … Continue reading The Dead Days: Stories Within Stories
“We’re Americans”: The Gothic in Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’
The Gothic genre has always been concerned with the ‘Other’, a figure who predominantly represents the transgressive, who stands out for being different to hegemonic social and political ideals. At the end of the Victorian period, the fin de siècle Gothic attached this label to the ‘foreign’ figure, most canonically evident in the vampiric Count … Continue reading “We’re Americans”: The Gothic in Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’
Frankenstein Alive, Alive: The Immortal Being
This is a guest post written by Alan D. D. Mary Shelley’s story of a mad scientist and his creation has left an undeniable print in popular culture. Not in vain, the story has been described as ‘one of the most adaptable and adapted novels of all time, spurring countless renditions in film, television, comic books, … Continue reading Frankenstein Alive, Alive: The Immortal Being
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Genesis of an outcast
This is a guest post written by Alan D. D.As ironic as it sounds, this has been pretty festive year for Goths. 1818 was not only the year when Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, by Jane Austen, were published after her death in 1817, it also started with the publication of Mary Shelley’s most famous work: … Continue reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Genesis of an outcast
Sheffield Gothic Does World Book Day Part Two
To celebrate World Book Day 2018, we decided it was the perfect time to celebrate two of our favourite books here at Sheffield Gothic: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. As both books are seminal Gothic texts and both celebrate their 200th anniversary this year (technically Northanger Abbey was published late December 1817 … Continue reading Sheffield Gothic Does World Book Day Part Two
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