Photo by Adrien Olichon on Pexels.com Welcome back to our Dead Days series, where we’re delving into ideas of liminality and thresholds in the Gothic, inspired by the in-between nature of this time of year. For this post, we’ll be thinking about how the Gothic not only features many indefinable elements, but is often indefinable … Continue reading The Dead Days: Shifting Genres
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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
The Problem of Appropriation – “But is it Gothic?”
One of the common catchphrases of the Gothic Reading group here at Sheffield U is the question “but is it Gothic?” and it’s something that often sparks off serious debate.(Nerd Alert: incoming heavy geekery and/or hard fanboying. You have been warned).One would be forgiven for thinking that a TV show that includes ghosts, vampires, technology … Continue reading The Problem of Appropriation – “But is it Gothic?”
Gravitational Grotesque, or, How I Learned to Stop Being So Meta and Love the Gothic: A story of one man’s fall back into the genre.
Buried alive in metafictional research is in an interesting and disturbing place to be. I found myself lost and alone, dug nose-deep into William H. Gass’s Willie Master’s Lonesome Wife, chasing footnotes between the pages only to be lured to the bottom of one where the author suddenly exclaims ‘Now I've got you alone down … Continue reading Gravitational Grotesque, or, How I Learned to Stop Being So Meta and Love the Gothic: A story of one man’s fall back into the genre.
Guest Post: Gothic and the Human-Subject
"The House of Frankenstein" (1944)This post is inspired by the many conferences which I attended last year. I have been playing about with these questions for a while and they have been inspired by discussions regarding post-humanism. In my work on lycanthropic literature, I consider how the character of the werewolf affects our ideas about … Continue reading Guest Post: Gothic and the Human-Subject
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