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Reading Group: Vampire Boyfriends

Sheffield Gothic is very excited to welcome you to our next reading group on vampire boyfriends and the Gothic imaginary. This reading group follows on from Sophie Haywood's Valentine's Day blog, which looked at the rise of vampires as romantic heroes in the modern day. We'll be meeting online at 3–4.30pm on Wednesday 20th April … Continue reading Reading Group: Vampire Boyfriends →

Reading Group – The Dark Side of Fairytales: Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber

Sheffield Gothic are excited to announce our first reading group of this academic year, looking at Angela Carter's collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979). These stories highlight the dark potential of the fairytale, using folklore to explore body horror, feminism, and to reinvestigate the Gothic genre itself. We'll be meeting online on Wednesday … Continue reading Reading Group – The Dark Side of Fairytales: Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber →

Reading Group – Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction

Sheffield Gothic Reading Group presents.... Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction If speculative fiction, sci-fi, the uncanny and the dystopian appeal, then join us in a virtual reading group to discuss Octavia E. Butler's weird worlds on Wednesday 28th April, 3:30 - 5:00pm. As a black woman writing science-fiction, Butler challenged assumptions about the genre's writers, … Continue reading Reading Group – Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction →

Pastoral Gothic: Ann Radcliffe and the Sublime

The Gothic Reading Group will be meeting on Wednesday 22ndMarch to continue this semester’s on-going discussion of all things Eco-Gothic. This time around we’ll be focusing on sublime pastoral landscapes.During the session we’ll be thinking about the pastoral mode in relation to the poetry of the Mistress of Udolpho herself, Ann Radcliffe. Radcliffe’s novels are … Continue reading Pastoral Gothic: Ann Radcliffe and the Sublime →

Gothic Reading Group Schedule, Spring 2017

Sheffield Gothic presents: Gothic Reading Group Schedule for Spring 2017 'Eco-Gothic' This year Sheffield Gothic delves into dystopia, apocalypse, natural disasters and sentient plant life, blurs the boundaries between man and beast, reads the Gothic in Middle Earth and plenty in between. All sessions take place from 4pm till 6pm in Jessop West room G.03 unless … Continue reading Gothic Reading Group Schedule, Spring 2017 →