By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 2 of the blog series. Maria Edgeworth’s Lucky Orphans As the century moved forward, the belief in the rags-to-riches narratives gradually started to give way to the significance of retaining social hierarchies,…
By Jemma Stewart Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series. Rose Roses…have ever reigned as queens of flowers.[i] The rose bloomed in Ancient Egypt, as Jack Goody attests: Above all there was the hundred-petalled rose, which became…
By Jemma Stewart Read Part 1 of this blog series. Lotus And as the voice spoke, a cold hand touched my hand … As the light came back, I gazed upon that which had been left within my hand. It…
By Jemma Stewart H. Rider Haggard’s Gothic Garden In the Gothic Studies articles ‘Blooming Marvel’ and ‘She shook her heavy tresses’, I assess the ways in which floral symbolism (or floriography) in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and H. Rider Haggard’s…
A staple in cinema for decades, the vampire movie is a genre that is constantly being rejuvenated with fresh blood. Michael Guarneri looks to Italian cinema to introduce five vintage vampire movies you might not have seen. 1) L’ultima preda…
The first issue of Gothic Studies published by EUP is also the first ever issue devoted to werewolves. In the twenty-first century, the era of late capitalism, new werewolf myths have emerged from our cultural memory around humans and wolves.…
In his new book, The Birth of the American Horror Film, Gary D. Rhodes delves into the archives to focus on 10 key horror genres prominent in American cinema between 1895 and 1915. From ghosts and witches to mad scientists…
By Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley While researching my forthcoming book, Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic, I have read a lot of scary stories written for children and young adults. Although the Gothic has always been part of children’s literature, it has exploded in…
By Julian Wolfreys This ‘valedictory’ editorial appears on the EUP Blog in two parts and is published in Volume 7 of Victoriographies, a journal of Victorian writing in the long 19th century, 1790-1914. <Read Part One The point of this…