Occultism and Popular Culture in Europe Date: 22 November to 23 November 2023 Location: Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen There has been a long cultural fascination with the macabre, horrific, and downright creepy across European society. From the early popular novels of writers such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), and […]
With the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897), and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), monsters became a staple of nineteenth-century literature. But their hold on the nineteenth-century imagination runs far deeper. Gargoyles and grotesques adorn the exteriors of neo-Gothic churches; experiments with blood transfusion elicit fears of monstrous hybrids; in 1885, […]
ECR Café ECR Café, a pioneering initiative started by the Center for Nineteenth-Century Studies International, brings scholars and early career researchers together in conversation – learning, discussing, and exploring the limits of knowledge. The first ECR Café highlights leading figures in the world of academic and research-driven publishing to discuss their experiences in the print […]
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