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In the Footsteps of Edward Bulwer-lytton's "Lucretia"Revisiting Victorian Popular Narratives of Madness
(Universidade de Vigo, 2012)The character of Bertha Mason in CharlotteBrontë’s Jane Eyrehas often been considered theparadigm of ‘the madwoman in the attic’; an archetypearising from Gothic domestic fictionthat would recur ... -
Victorian, Victorianist, Neo-Victorian: A Critical Overview
(Universidade de Vigo, 2010)This essay presents a historical overview of diverse critical readings and revaluations of Victorian Studies interpreted as reflections of cultural tenets of different periods from Victorian times to the present. Current ... -
Words of Madness / Female Worlds: Hysteria as Intertextual Discourse of Women’s Deviance in Jane Eyre
(Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2008)This paper aims to accomplish the following objectives: locate instances of female madness or hysteria in Charlotte Brontë’s novel as illustrative of women’s deviance and otherness; outline the evolving nature of critical ... -
Masculinities in Distress: Aging and Gender Trouble in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Caxtons
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Victorianomania: Reimagining, Refashioning, and Rewriting Victorian Literature and Culture
(Universidad de Zaragoza, 2017)Ressenya del llibre: Victorianomania: Reimagining, Refashioning, and Rewriting Victorian Literature and Culture / a cura di S. Falchi, G. Perletti, M. I. Romero Ruiz. Franco Angeli, 2015 -
A 21 st -Century Retrospective View about Edgar Allan Poe
(Universidad de Zaragoza, 2013)Ressenya del llibre: A 21 st -Century Retrospective View about Edgar Allan Poe = Una Mirada Retrospectiva sobre Edgar Allan Poe desde el siglo XXI / Eusebio V. Llácer Llorca, María Amparo Olivares Pardo, Nicolás Estévez ... -
From pathology to invisibility: age identity as a cultural construct in vampire fiction
(Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2014)A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era up to the contemporary period underlines a clear evolution that seems particularly relevant from the perspective of ageing ... -
New or Old Models of Ageing? The Older-Woman Figure in Two Contemporary Catalan Soap Operas
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2017)In her work on women and the soap opera, Christine Geraghty argues that precisely the extended form of this TV genre, both in time and consequent plots, has contributed to a wider representation of women in terms of their ... -
«It reminded me of Poe’s story»: Edgar Allan Poe’s legacy, the ghost story and the American gothic in Richard Matheson’s A Stir of Echoes
(Univeristat Autónoma de Barcelona, 2014)Pese a que la novela El último escalón (1958) a menudo ha sido eclipsada por otros títulos más conocidos de Richard Matheson tales como Soy leyenda (1954) o El increíble hombre menguante (1956), debería otorgársele la ... -
"This is the nineteenth-century, you know': traces of the Victorian Gothic Romance in Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn
(Universidad de Jaén, 2013)Before publishing her seminal novel Rebecca (1938), Daphne du Maurier had published Jamaica Inn in 1936, deliberately setting its action in the nineteenth-century and featuring a young heroine, Mary Yellan, who, after her ... -
Ancient Voices in Contemporary Theatrical Forms: The Case of The Bacchae by Kneehigh Theatre
(Department of Theatre, University of Kansas, 2014)Only separated by two years in their publication, Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice (2003) and Kneehigh Theatre’s The Bacchae (2005) re-introduced two ancient myths into the theatrical spectrum of the beginning of the new millennium. ... -
(META)-Theatrical Old Age in Two Contemporary European Films
(SAGE Publications, 2014)Similar to literature or the performing arts, the cinema and, in particular, the narrative film constitutes a useful artistic and textual source which can throw light on the construction of old age and its (mis)representations. ... -
Pre-dicting the Past, Re-membering the Present, Imagining the Self: the Theatricalization of Memory in Mnemonic by Simon McBurney and Complicité Theatre Company
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)Mnemonic, a play conceived and directed by Simon McBurney and devised by Theatrede Complicite, words are not only time capsules in which different fictionalized memoriesare preserved, but also mnemonic objects in their own ... -
Bodies that Question : Anti-Illusionistic Acting in Edgar Nkosi White's Theatre
(Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona., 2006)Many members of the theatrical profession believe that dramaturgies which subvert the apparently coherent and truthful world offered by Naturalistic aesthetics represent our world of ... -
Prematurely Aged, Long-Lived: The Effects of Ageing at a Different Pace in Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
(Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), 2012)The conceptualisations of the ageing process are culturally and temporally conditioned. Critics such as Teresa Mangum first and Karen Chase later have argued that the Victorians were particularly concerned about ageing and ... -
A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
(Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), 2010)The American scholar Burton R. Pollin established literary connections between Edgar Allan Poe and the Victorian English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, tracing the influence the latter exerted over many of Poe’s tales ... -
Europeanised Americans and Americanised Europeans: (Re)Envisioning Henry James’ Daisy Miller and Washington Square within Transatlantic Studies
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Coming of age inside, outside the big house, and beyond: a poetics of ageing and decay throungh John Banville's Birchwood
(Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2008)John Banville retoma las convenciones que caracterizaron al género de la Big House en la literatura irlandesa para cambiarlas y dotarlas de una forma que las hiciera más convenientes al postmodernismo. A lo largo de ... -
"Those tales of effect" Poe's gothic tales through Roger Corman's cinema
(Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2010)A pesar de ser considerado el padre del género detectivesco y uno de los precursores de la ciencia-ficción, Poe siempre ha sido especialmente aclamado por sus relatos góticos. El duradero hechizo que aún producen sus cuentos ...