Buy tickets – A Warning to the Curious: A Ghostly Online Conference – Zoom
Romancing the Gothic presents its fifth annual online conference over two days - 23rd and 24th August. The conference celebrate...
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Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
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Now we have Betty Hagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes
16.07.2025 08:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous in Arthur Machen’s fiction through the theories of German philosopher and theologian Rudolph Otto #VPFAExtremes
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A photograph of the stained glass window in Birmingham Cathedral. The window shows the acesnsion of Christ. By Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris' studio. If you look closely, you can see Morris patterns in the glass panels.
Had such a fab time at #VPFAExtremes (as usual) and met so many lovely people (also as usual). Saw this cool window, too (less usual).
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Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes
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#VPFAExtremes Emilie Laurent describes how castrati were considered immoral and monstrous by the Victorians for transgressing boundaries of sex and gender, and highlights Vernon Lee's criticism of gender nonconforming voices.
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Thank you 💜
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It was an honour and a pleasure to give this paper today at the wonder #VPFAextremes conference! Many thanks to the lovely audience 💜
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Keynote 2 is Richard Fallon: Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction.
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And finishing off this panel is @emilieslaurent.bsky.social with her exploration of the monstrous extremes of gender in the figure of the castrato in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ #VPFAExtremes
15.07.2025 09:23 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ifill very interestingly compares office Gothic to traditional Gothic novels: where the heroine in a traditional Gothic novel can grow through conquering various trials, the office worker does the same through his daily trudge and problem solving. #vpfaextremes
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Hypnotism was predominantly undertaken by masculine men upon female subjects. Much fin de siecle fiction explores the dangers of hypnotism and its potential for sexual exploitation #VPFAExtremes
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'This woman, by her own explanation, can dominate my nervous organism. She can project herseledf into my body and take command of it [...] She is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell' -The parasite #VPFAExtremes
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We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes
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"What kind of writer you are depends a lot on who's holding the pen, who 'places you where'" in the catalogue - Carolyn Oulton on how for example Dickens is grouped with different authors/in different genres depending on when and where his works were read.
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Congratulations! Immediately adding it to my TBR pile--it sounds like a compelling read!
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Such an exciting programme!
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Such an exciting programme!
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This is a pamphlet for the confeernce "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage: Reciprocal influences and intermedial dialogue," held in Paris on September 18-19.
Registration for the upcoming "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage" conference in Paris (Sept 18-19) is now open! You can register here: dr01.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/...
#vernonlee #victorian #conference
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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research
Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.
Our official journal for @incsa.bsky.social is open for submissions. As the editor responsible for themed issues I'm seeking innovative proposals connected to any aspect of the 19thC. If interested, get in touch with me directly.
Journal info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
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Azur-Colloque
Registration for the upcoming "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage" conference in Paris (Sept 18-19) is now open!
#vernonlee #victorian #conference
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Clues 43.1: Christie, Hamilton, Hammett, Høeg, multilingual study, Ukrainian crime fiction.
A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.
So happy and proud to publish my very first article!
It is called "Sympathy for the Devil: Failed Catharsis and Universal Guilt in Agatha Christie’s Curtain", in Clues, and it truly is a labor of love. Finally a dream has come true!
elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/04/clue...
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Doctorant.e.s en littérature, plus que quelques jours pour nous envoyer vos propositions ! 👍
20.05.2025 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you so much for inviting me! I was very honoured, and delighted to discuss Vernon Lee, culture and the Gothic with you all!
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Associate Lecturer at the Open University; Victorianist; researcher on Mary Braddon, periodicals, women's writing; Secretary of @vpfa; dance teacher; and I love sewing.
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PhD researcher. Aberystwyth Uni & Uni of Bristol SWWDTP. Female ageing in late Victorian literature & medicine.
Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Prof at University of Greenwich UK.
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Queer, disabled writer, performer & PhD researcher in 19thC Literature. Dedicated to finding queer subtext in everything.
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he/him • BA English graduate from the University of Birmingham, incoming MA English student at the University of Bristol
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Dr | Lecturer - Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year Programme
Currently researching & writing on the (neo-)Victorian corset. Web Manager for the VPFA.
Clarinettist, pianist, recorder player. Occasional potter and painter.
Professor of English Literature, Bishop Grosseteste University - women’s life & travel writing, Victorian literary networks and transnational subjectivity, Margaret Collier, Janet Ross and multigenerational matrilineal legacies.
Scholar of Earth's history in literature and culture. Postdoctoral Researcher in Collections and Culture @nhm-london.bsky.social (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/richard-fallon.html; r.fallon@nhm.ac.uk) and Hon. Fellow at University of Birmingham.
Nineteenth-century scholar concerned with narrative silences, multivocal fiction, and gender-based-violence. I also love cats 🐈
Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Working on disability in fantasy and medieval literature.
she/her. Victorianist & dandypunk. My books on #Steampunk London & #Ouida out now! Co-hosting @VPFAThirdSex #3rdSex.
Teacher, mother, wife
First-year Eng lit PhD student (Sherlock Holmes post Doyle) and former MA student (Victorian Gothic) at the University of Portsmouth
