This is a guest post by Yaroslav Marichev. The United States is full to the brim with political, social, and thus literary potential for writers of the Gothic mode, and particularly as a Puritan experiment which has, over the course of several centuries, laid a foundation to a genre which literature experts denote as the American Gothic.
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Gothic Bible Halloween Seminar
On Monday 28th October Sheffield Gothic and SIIBS are delighted to welcome Dr Simon Marsden (University of Liverpool) to the University of Sheffield for a special Gothic Bible Halloween seminar! Simon will be exploring ‘In God We Trust: The Contested Sacred Spaces of American Horror Film’ and if you would like to join us it will be … Continue reading Gothic Bible Halloween Seminar
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
Gothic Bible: The Phantom of Eden
The following post by Christopher Scott 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 Phantom of Eden
Gothic Bible: Religious Belief & The Gothic Village in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Part One)
The following post by Emily Marlow 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: Religious Belief & The Gothic Village in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Part One)
Gothic Bible: In the beginning there was ‘A Gothic Story’
In the beginning, there was ‘A Gothic Story,’ and it was…entertaining, to say the least. Or, to quote a recent review of this Eighteenth Century Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, its ‘not “good,” exactly […] If you’re not engrossed, you may be, at least, instructively perplexed.’[i] (Original cover page for The Castle of Otranto (left) … Continue reading Gothic Bible: In the beginning there was ‘A Gothic Story’
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