As the Gothic Reading Group gets ready to unveil its schedule for the 2014-15 academic year, along with some exciting plans for the future, now seems like a good time to take a glance back at what we read, where we went and what we said in 2013-14. Admittedly we mostly just went to RRB79 … Continue reading Through the Vaults (again): The Gothic Reading Group in 2013-14
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Recollections – 2013-14 Session Six: Selections from John Stagg’s The Minstrel of the North
Last week the Gothic Reading Group met to discuss a selection of pieces by the largely forgotten Romantic poet, John Stagg. Much of the conversation revolved around Stagg's place in relation to an existing scholarly understanding of the 18th and 19th century Gothic. This has lead Mark to produce a longer blog post than usual, … Continue reading Recollections – 2013-14 Session Six: Selections from John Stagg’s The Minstrel of the North
Sources and Resources – Surfing the web for Dickens and Poe
We've not long to go until the second Gothic Reading Group session for this term. In the wake of the previous introductory post on Dickens and Poe's tales of 'madness,' Mark has been hunting around the internet for interesting supplementary materials. Here are a few of his favourites. They might offer a bit of stimulus … Continue reading Sources and Resources – Surfing the web for Dickens and Poe
Recollections – 2013-14 Session One: Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead
On the 16th of October the Gothic Reading Group held its first session of the 2013-14 academic year: screening and discussing Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead(2013). This was a first for us in a couple of other senses too: being the most contemporary 'text' we'd looked at together and our most graphic piece of 'horror' so … Continue reading Recollections – 2013-14 Session One: Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead
Foreshadowings – Texts and Contexts for Poe and Dickens
Our first session last week was a great success, with lots of interesting discussion following a screening of The Evil Dead. There'll be a blog follow-up in the next few days, but, in the meantime, we've the second session of this year's Gothic Reading Group to look forward to next week. This time we are … Continue reading Foreshadowings – Texts and Contexts for Poe and Dickens
Through the Vaults: Remembering Last Year’s Meetings. . .
We hope all Gothic Reading Group members (old and new) are settling into their courses at Sheffield and enjoying encountering new texts, authors and subjects (Gothic or otherwise) as part of their studies. It is, of course, the first meeting of the Gothic Reading Group next week. We know people are busy getting to grips … Continue reading Through the Vaults: Remembering Last Year’s Meetings. . .
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