Join the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International (CNCSI) on April 26 2024 for a day-long workshop of eclectic and interdisciplinary papers from guest speakers themed around Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. This workshop brings together exciting voices from a range of interdisciplinary fields to explore and expand our understandings of ‘science fiction’ in the […]
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, […]
Join us for this free online event exploring the theme of environmentalism through a nineteenth century lens. Please not all times are Central European Time (CET). Extinction, industrialisation, resource extraction, colonial expansion, environmentalism, land reformulation, capitalism — these entangled areas, and their impact on the human and more-than-human world, loomed large in nineteenth-century imaginations across cultures, […]
