Student Led Seminar March 2017

Gothic 'artefictions': fabricating history in Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill and The Castle of Otranto.

Abstract

This paper will consider how Walpole took a common approach to these architectural and literary works, combining antiquarian scholarship and dramatic technique into an emotional and sensory recreation of the Gothic past.

Speaker: Amy Lim MSt Literature and Arts

From Darkness to Madness: Gothic Traces, Sensation Motifs, and the Duality of the Female Psyche in English and Spanish Fiction (XVIII - XIX Centuries).

Abstract

This paper will explore the relationship between Gothic and Sensational elements in English and Peninsular Spanish texts of the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, with a focus on ambiguity in relation to female insanity and criminality.

Speaker: Lorena Sanchez Gallego DPhil Literature