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In this episode I'm joined by my Dracula Vibes panel, Drs Madeline Potter, Theadora Jean and Daniel Kasper!
We discuss how Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla influenced Dracula, and the legacy Le Fanu's work has today. We consider the queer elements of the work, as well as the way Anglo-Irish identity features in Le Fanu's writing. We think about the way frame narrative benefits Gothic literature overall, and also how a Le Fanu renaissance could be occurring in academia and beyond, to raise the profile of these Gothic works.
Bios:
Dr Madeline Potter is an early career teaching & research fellow in the long 19th century at the University of Edinburgh. She works on 19th century gothic literature and theology, with a focus on monstrosity.. Her academic monograph, Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic, is forthcoming with University of Wales Press. She is also writing a trade book, The Roma: A Travelling History, to be published by The Bodley Head in the UK and Harper Collins in the USA.
Dr Theadora Jean is a Gothic scholar and writer. She recently completed her creative-critical doctorate at Royal Holloway, and her research specialisms include the 19th century, Dracula adaptation, Romanticism, anti-racism, and interdisciplinarity. Her creative work is published under the name T.S.J. Harling.
Dr Daniel Kasper is an Instructor of English at the University of Texas Arlington, studying the Gothic, Dracula, Shirley Jackson, Victorians, and feminism. His work appears in the journal Women's Studies, the collection Shirley Jackson: A Companion, and is forthcoming in an edited collection on Gothic Nostalgia, talking about Mary Poppins Returns.
Check out the panel's Le Fanu suggestions:
CarmillaIn a Glass DarklyUncle SilasGreen TeaSchalken the PainterMadam Crowl's Ghost
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Natasha Booth-Johnson, who is researching into the intersections between queerness and politics in the works of nineteenth-century writers Edith Simcox, Mona Caird, and Isabella Ormston-Ford. We discuss how these writers were active in political movements and the ways in which their work also connects with queerness (as a broad concept involving sexuality, gender, and overall non-conformity).
We also discuss the QueerNineteen website, which is a useful resource for scholars to publish short pieces, but also for the general public to access about topics involving queer studies; this sparks some chat about how information about 'non-heteronormative' identities has and is controlled in everyday life., such as the education system.
About my guest: Natasha is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Birmingham. She is researching queer fiction by politically active female authors between 1882 and 1914. She has been running the website QueerNineteen since July 2022. Her research interests lie primarily in unconventional practices and marginalised communities, and she has previously completed work on Decadence and Spiritualism.
This was recorded in early 2023 (January) hence the notes about industrial action!
For more information on Tasha's work, check out the details below:
Twitter: @QueerNineteen | @nkarlz
Website: https://www.queernineteen.com/
Check out Tasha's suggestions:
Mr Sunshine - on Netflix
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Valentina Gaio. Like myself, Valentina's research interests are broad, from popular culture to crime and horror, and we initially discuss the contemporary 18th century media depiction of the French Revolution. Our main topic today, however, centres on Victorian views of food (specifically slum inhabitants' diets), and the similarities to contemporary 21st century food campaigns. Specifically, we focus on Valentina's study on Jamie Oliver's public campaign, and how Victorian/19th century attitudes towards poverty, disadvantaged communities, diet, and how to help marginalised people maybe have not changed as much as we might initially imagine
About my guest: Valentina is a PhD student at Queenâs University in Kingston, Ontario, who's currently preparing for her comprehensive exams. Her field of interest is Modern Popular Culture with a focus on crime and horror. She is interested in queer themes, social structures and hierarchies, and grief. She is currently working on an investigation of contemporary English reporting of the French Revolution. In addition to her academic work, she is an editor of the literary journal The Lamp and a prose writer. She received her BA in Modern Foreign Cultures and Languages at the University of Parma, her MA in English Studies at the University of Venice, and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews in Scotland
For more information on Valentina's work, check out the details below:
Instagram: @popcompromp
https://queensges.wordpress.com/reps/
"Let Them Eat Nuggets": https://20vg41.wixsite.com/thedoldrums/post/let-them-eat-nuggets
Check out Valentina's suggestions: (lInks to these can all be found in Valentina's article above)
Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London by Ellen Rosson
"Food and the Cooking of the Working Class about 1900" by Eunice Schofield
"The provision of school meals since 1906: progress or a recipe for disaster?" by Alan Finch
"Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets" by Dan Olson
Sunless Skies, a Lovecraftian videogame with a Neo-Victorian setting.
Valentina is helping to organise the Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature, so here is the live CFP: https://queensges.wordpress.com/queens-graduate-conference-in-literature-2/
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Danielle Dove, whose research focuses on dress and fashion history, material culture, and literary celebrity. We consider how dress can be linked to the uncanny, utilising new materialism and object-oriented ontology theories to explore the idea that objects (such as items of dress) have a form of agency, and how neo-Victorian sartorial objects seem to have an impact or effect on the protagonists. Particularly, they often have a form of memory (physical or psychological) of past wearers. We think about how second hand or vintage clothes evoke memories of the Victorian period, and the wearers who came before us. We consider the continued fascination with period dress, despite the impracticalities of wearing some of those outfits today, and the enduring legacy of the 19th century in relation to dress and material culture.
About my guest: Dr Danielle Dove is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Surrey. Her research and publications centre on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature with a specific emphasis on dress and fashion history, material culture, and literary celebrity. She is the co-editor of Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film (2022, Palgrave Macmillan) and is currently working on her monograph provisionally titled Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction (forthcoming with Bloomsbury).
For more information on Danielle's work, check out the details below:
Twitter: @Danielle_M_Dove
Academic profile: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/danielle-mariann-dove
Check out Danielle's suggestions:
Richard Flanagan - Wanting
Diana Souhami - Gwendolen: A Novel
Barbara Ewing - The Petticoat Men
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by CĂ©leste Callen, who researches into time and temporal experience in 19th century literature. Specifically, we discuss her PhD which utilises the works of Henri Bergson as a lens through which to read the works of Charles Dickens. We discuss how for Bergson, time is a subjective experience rather than linear, and how this impacts on the standard novel construction, in addition to narrative voice (such as in David Copperfield). We think about how time became more standardised and important for the Victorians (and other 19th century societies), with the introduction of the railways, Greenwich Mean Time, all of which show how temporality intersected with (and impacted from) modernity. We discuss how the pandemic impacted our sense of time, and how the 19th century constructions (such as working weeks, timetables etc) endure in different ways today.
About my guest: CĂ©leste Callen is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests revolve around time and subjective temporal experience in nineteenth-century fiction. She holds a BA in English from Kingâs College London, where she wrote a dissertation exploring the deconstructed boundaries between childhood and adulthood in Dickens and Barrie. Her postgraduate dissertation explored the self's relationship to time in the works of Balzac, Stevenson and Wilde, which inspired her current doctoral project. Her PhD research explores subjective temporal experience in Dickensâ fiction, and more specifically argues that Dickens anticipates modern philosophyâs conception of temporal experience by reading his fiction through the lens of French philosopher Henri Bergsonâs philosophy of time.
For more information on CĂ©leste's work, check out the details below:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/celeste-callen
Check out CĂ©leste''s suggestions:
Shola von Reinhold: Lote
Honoré de Balzac, La Peau de Chagrin (1831)
Charles Dickens, The Chimes (1844) and The Haunted Man (1848)
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by a special panel: Dr Madeline Potter, Theadora Jean, and Dr Daniel Kasper, who all research into Gothic literature (specifically, Dracula!) We discuss how their interest in Dracula began, and the different academic (and side) projects they have worked on. We focus on the positive and negative aspects of adaptations, and the assumptions we have (perhaps incorrectly gained) about the Dracula figure. Discussions also include ideas of monstrosity and how this is not reflected in adaptations; ideas of cultural sensitivity, especially when considering the Romanian folklore and setting, and whether the novel can be considered feminist.
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode features discussions around sexual assault/rape, and references to racism in literature.
About the panel: Madeline Potter is a postdoctoral fellow at Edge Hill Universityâs EHU19. She works on Irish Gothic literature and theology. Her first academic monograph, âTheological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothicâ will be published by University of Wales Press, and she is currently editing a collection on vampires and theology.
Theadora Jean is a Gothic scholar and writer. She is currently studying for a Critical & Creative Writing PhD at the Royal Holloway, University of London, on the 'New Woman' in Dracula. Her own gothic tales are published under a pseudonym, T.S.J. Harling.
Daniel Kasper is an English Instructor at the University of Texas Arlington. He studies a wide range of Gothic texts including Dracula, with specific interests in feminist and biopolitical studies. He's been most recently published in Womenâs Studies and Shirley Jackson: A Companion
For more information on our panel, check out the details below:
Thea's Twitter: @theadorajean / @tsjharling
Thea's writing portfolio: https://tsjharling.squarespace.com/
Listen with Audrey: https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Check out the panel's suggestions:
Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla; Uncle Silas
Bram Stoker: The Jewel of Seven Stars; The Lair of the White Worm
Midnight Mass - Netflix show
Florence Marryat: The Blood of the Vampire
Uriah Derick D'Arcy : The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St Domingo
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
Twitter: @victorianlegac1
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Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/
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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Tom Ue, who has researched into authors such as George Gissing, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Prime-Stevenson. We begin by discussing how Tom developed his PhD from his previous studies into George Gissing, and how Gissing's diaries show how well-read and well-connected he was. We consider Gissing's shift from working-class writing, and the ethical issues that still exist today surrounding writing about disadvantaged people, and possibly for them, rather than giving them agency. We marvel at how a nineteenth-century author like Gissing recognised this problem, and how this is a legacy that continues to be unpacked and challenged.
About my guest: Dr Tom Ue is Assistant Professor in Literature and Science at Dalhousie University. He is the author of Gissing, Shakespeare, and the Life of Writing (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming) and George Gissing (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming); the editor of George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming); and an editor of the journal Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (Liverpool University Press, 2022-present). Ue has held the prestigious Frederick Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship and he is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London.
For more information on Tom's work, check out the details below:
https://dal.academia.edu/TomUe
Twitter: @GissingGeorge
Check out Tom's suggestions:
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
George Gissing - New Grub Street
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Louise Creechan, who has researched into Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies. We begin by discussing her PhD in illiteracy and how the nineteenth century saw the rise of mass literacy in England, and the creation of 'normative' standards of achievement. This coincided with capitalist models for a 'productive workforce.' We think about this persists today, with funding dependent on school grades' success, and also how the hierarchical nature of the academy can limit potential for neurodiverse people, and other academics who may have barriers such as dyslexia. We consider the legacies of Victorian systems on class structures and social inequality, and also look at innovative approaches such as Louise's forthcoming monograph, and her funded Neo-Victorian musicals projects, which were a great form of public engagement.
About my guest: Dr Louise Creechan is a Lecturer in the Literary Medical Humanities at Durham University, specialising in Victorian literature, neurodiversity, and the history of (not) reading. She is an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker and her current project, The Legacy of the Dunceâs Hat, is about how the Victorians quantified stupidity and how these ideas saturate our current understandings of intelligence. She is the co-founder of the Narratives of Neurodiversity Network and she is also working on an edited collection, (Neuro)Divergent Textualities, that will attempt to define what a neurodivergent approach to literary scholarship would look like. Louise is also queen of the musicals and has published on and staged various Neo-Victorian musicals in the name of public engagement. She is also the co-host of the academic comedy podcast, LOL My Praxis.
For more information on Louise's work, check out the details below:
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/louise-creechan/
LOLMyPraxis (Twitter): @lolmypraxis
Check out Louise's suggestions:
Sweeney Todd (Sondheim musical version)
Cliff Richard's Heathcliff
George Gissing - Workers in the Dawn
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Richard Jorge FernĂĄndez, who researches into the nineteenth-century Irish Gothic, especially the short story. We talk about how his interest in Irish literature began, and also about his current project which compares Galician literature and Irish literature, due to his own roots, and the similarities in these regions. We think about the issues colonial countries face, as well as immigrants and second-generation immigrants. Specifically, we consider how language comes into play, such as conflicting feelings about parent languages, how people react to hearing different accents, all of which play into the Othering concept. We discuss how these ideas were present in both 19th century contexts and today, and the importance of recognising privilege, and how literature can challenge this.
About my guest: Richard Jorge FernĂĄndez received his BA in English Studies at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and later on proceeded to enhance his knowledge in the field of literature with an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin, where his minor thesis on the relation of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the Gothic tradition was supervised by Declan Kiberd. He completed his PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela researching the relationship between the short story and the Irish Gothic tradition in the writings of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker. He is currently teaching at the Department of Philology in the University of Cantabria.
For more information on Richard's work, check out the details below:
https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/contributor/richard-jorge-fernandez/
Check out Richard's suggestions:
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly; Carmilla: The House by the Churchyard
Bram Stoker - Dracula's Guest
Kate Morton - The Forgotten Garden; The Distant Hours
M.R. James - Collected Ghost Stories
Maria Edgeworth - Castle Rackrent
Marcial Valladares - Maxina
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
Twitter: @victorianlegac1
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In this episode I'm joined by Manon Burz-Labrande, who researches into the circulation of penny bloods and penny dreadfuls. We talk about how her research looks at how there are issues around canonicity, due to many publications being hidden still, meaning we return to the 'classics' . We observe how there were different ways of circulation beyond publishing, and how contemporary sources like Henry Mayhew reported on this. This leads to the different ways of consuming stories, communal reading, giving and lending books, and oral storytelling traditions.
About my guest: Manon Burz-Labrande is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria. Specialising in Victorian popular literature and culture, her PhD focuses on the exploration of the concept of circulation in and of the penny bloods and penny dreadfuls, through a literary and cultural analysis of their literary content, the discourses they triggered in nineteenth-century criticism, their place in the Victorian literary landscape and their circulation into Neo-Victorian fiction. She has written articles and reviews for Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, PolysĂšmes, Revenant Journal and Wilkie Collins Journal, entries for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Womenâs Writing (ed. Lesa Scholl), and two chapters in upcoming edited collections on Victorian popular fiction. Her broader research interests include sound studies and the Gothic, and in 2021 she co-edited a special issue for Short Fiction in Theory & Practice entitled âMore than Meets the Ear: Sound & Short Fiction.â She is also the managing editor of the forthcoming Londonâs East End: A Short Encyclopedia, edited by Kevin A. Morrison (McFarland, 2022).
For more information on Manon's work, check out the details below:
https://manonburzlabrande.com/
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (part of British Library Tales of the Weird) - out in September 2022
Check out Manon's suggestions:
Vivian Shaw - Strange Practice
Ambrose Perry - The Way of All Flesh
E.S. Thomson - Beloved Poison
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Azza Hussen, who researches into the works of Charles Dickens. We talk about how her resarch looks at how Dickens' work engaged with or challenged contemporary 19th century dream theories, in novels like Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son. We observe how some 19th century dream theories had a moralistic viewpoint, in that moral people couldn't have bad dreams.
About my guest: Azza is a second year PhD student at the University of Leicester, researching Dickens and nineteenth century dream theories .
For more information on Azza's work, check out the details below:
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/people/phd-students
Check out Azza's suggestions:
Charles Dickens -"The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices" (1857) (with Wilkie Collins)
Elizabeth Macneal - The Doll Factory
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Alora Hayward, who researches into Victorian literary works such as Christina Rossetti, George Gissing, Amy Levy and Charlotte Bronte. We talk about academic study in the pandemic and how this has helped us to reevaluate things, and also how nineteenth century attitudes towards gender, class and sexuality can be reflected today.
About my guest:
Alora Hayward graduated from The University of Winnipeg with her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in June 2021 and is a current MA student at Queenâs University finishing up her degree. She will be graduating in the latter half of 2022. Alora considers herself to be a junior scholar whose research interests are: Victorian Prose and Poetry, Gender and Sexuality, Class, The New Woman, The Fallen Woman, The Odd Woman, and The Woman Question. Though Alora is not completing her PhD in academia, she is pursuing her love of creative writing by applying for PhDâs in the UK for the 2023 year. Her focus in that area is creative non-fiction, and free-verse poetry.
For more information on Alora's work, check out the details below:
Twitter: @alorajade
Instagram: @deargentlesoul_
Blog: http://www.alorajadeswriting.wordpress.com
Check out Alora's suggestions:
George Gissing: Workers in the Dawn, The Nether World, The Odd Women
Charlotte Bronte: Villette
Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey
The Irregulars (TV series)
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Caterina Liberace, who researches into the use of Victorian architecture and décor in twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic horror. We consider how the archetypal haunted house we now associate as a Gothic house, is an trans-Atlantic incarnation, and emerged after WWII. We think about how the country house exemplifies this, and how the house also acts as a vampiric institution, creating opportunities to think about how this space is represented in literature.
About my guest: Caterina earned her BA in History and International Relations from George Washington University and an MA in European History at UCL; She currently in her final year of Modern British History MPhil at the University of Oxford, and she will start her PhD in the autumn.
Check out Cat's suggestions:
Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog, The Doomsday Book
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Mexican Gothic
Edith Wharton - Mr Jones, All Souls
E.F. Benson - How Fear Departed the Long Gallery
Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal, Making Money, Raising Steam
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
Twitter: @victorianlegac1
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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Eleanor Dobson, who researches into the reception of ancient Egypt during the 19th and 20th centuries. We discuss the centenary of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, and the stories around the famous 'curses'. We consider what 19th and 20th century Egyptologists were reading, and how they wrote their own stories. We consider how perceptions of the curses developed or changed in the 19th century onwards, and how ancient Egypt and curses are represented in 20th and 21st century films.
About my guest: Dr Eleanor Dobson is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her first book, Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology came out with Edinburgh University Press in 2020, and her second book, Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic and Ancient Egypt, is out with UCL Press later this year
For more information on Ellie's work, check out the details below:
Check out Ellie's suggestions:
The Extraordinary Adventures of AdĂšle Blanc-Sec (2010 movie)
Louisa May Alcott - Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
Twitter: @victorianlegac1
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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Barbara Franchi, who researches into neo-Victorian fiction, intertextuality and echoes of Empire. We consider issues such as the risks of nostalgia in society, and the enduring legacy of the 19th century in neo-Victorian works. We discuss the idea of a neo-Victorian 'canon' and how literature and critical scholarship is redefining this concept - as well as the whole genre of neo-Victorianism. We consider the roots of the field and genre in the reaction to Thatcherism, and how the British-centric approach is actually an Anglocentric one, and narrowed to a specific idea of Englishness.
About my guest: Dr Barbara Franchi obtained her PhD in 2017 from the University of Kent, where she wrote a thesis on A. S. Byattâs fiction and intertextuality. She holds a BA in Modern Languages and an MA in English and Postcolonial studies, both from the University of Venice (Italy). Her research focuses on contemporary women's writing, cultural memory, historical fiction, and echoes of Empire in all of the above: it is through these angles that she approaches neo-Victorianism. She has published book chapters and articles on neo-Victorian and neo-historical authors such as Byatt (in Sea Narratives, ed. Charlotte Mathieson: Palgrave 2016), Eleanor Catton (Partial Answers, 2018), Rose Tremain and Isabel Allende (Neo-Victorian Studies, 2019), and David Mitchell (with the Italian journal MediAzioni, 2019). Future publications include a chapter on Byattâs The Childrenâs Book and Peacock and Vine (in Neo-Victorian Decadences, forthcoming within Rodopiâs Neo-Victorian series), and an article on the novelistâs short stories (in the Journal of the Short Story in English). She has also worked on travel studies, co-editing Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel: Spaces, Nations and Empires (Cambridge Scholars 2018, with Elvan Mutlu): the collection examines imperialism and intercultural crossovers in Victorian travel writing, covering travel accounts, fiction and journalism. She has taught at the Universities of Newcastle, Kent, and Canterbury Christ Church, and is now a Teaching Fellow at Durham University.
For more information on Barbara's work, check out the details below:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: barbara_franchi
Academia: https://durham.academia.edu/BarbaraFranchi
Check out Barbara's suggestions:
Angels and Insects (1995 film)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor -- Love is a Camera (2014 single and video)
Sarah Waters : The Little Stranger
Abdulrazak Gurnah - Desertion, Afterlives
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Dominique Gracia, who had worked on repetitions and revisions, and adaptation theory. We discuss the influence of Sherlock Holmes on modern TV detectives in series such as Sherlock and Vienna Blood. We observe the ways in which we see works through adaptations, and how neo-Victorian works may influence how we think or perceive the nineteenth century. We also discuss hidden stories about Victorian female detectives, and how Holmes' legacy persists today.
About my guest: Dominique is an independent scholar whoâs currently Chief of Staff for the Director of UCLâs Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Her research focuses on repetitions and revisions, from Dante Gabriel Rossettiâs double-works to the pot-boiling of popular fiction. Her most recent publications focus on early female detectives and Sherlock Holmesâ influence on modern TV detectives, and she is currently writing a collection of Neo-Victorian short stories featuring a Welsh female detective in East London.
For more information on Dominique's work, check out the details below:
https://exeter.academia.edu/DominiqueGracia
Check out Dominique's suggestions:
Kim Newman - Professor Moriaty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
Anthony Horowitz - Moriarty
Nev March - Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery
J.C. Briggs - The Murder of Patience Brooke
Heather Redmond - A Dickens of a Crime Series
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
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In this episode I'm joined by Deborah Siddoway, who researches into how the nineteenth century English novel was both informed by and influenced the path of divorce law reform in England. We discuss how all her authors had complex relationships with marriage, and how this is reflected in their works. We also discuss how the no-fault divorce was ended at the time of recording, and how this changes a lot of things for people seeking divorces in England. We discuss her PhD progress, and also her podcast, The Story of Divorce, which tells the story to the background of divorce law in England, and explains the impetus behind the Divorce Act of 1857 finally being passed, making divorce more accessible in England with the establishment of the Divorce Court in London.
About my guest: Deborah graduated with a BA and an LLB from Sydney University, and then worked as a legal researcher for the Honourable Justice Beazley of the Court of Appeal of New South Wales, before beginning her career as a dual-qualified solicitor in leading legal firms in both Sydney and London. She was awarded an MA by research in Dickens Studies with the University of Buckingham for her paper entitled The Twisting of the Ring: Dickens, Divorce and the Evolution of his Views on Marriage. She was awarded the 2019 Partlow Prize for her paper âMisfortnet Marriagesâ: Discussing Divorce in Household Words. She commenced her PhD part-time in 2020, where her research examines how the nineteenth century English novel was both informed by and influenced the path of divorce law reform in England, with a focus on the works of authors such as Mary Shelley, the BrontĂ« sisters, Caroline Norton, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins in the context of a specific consideration of the social and legal imperatives leading to the enactment of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857, one of the most comprehensive and significant reforms of the archaic system governing the marital relationship of the era. She is a postgraduate representative on the advisory board for the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies. Her podcast series, The Story of Divorce, tells the stories of the bigamists, the bastards, the feminists, and the fornicators that helped give us the law of divorce that exists in England today.
For more information on Deborah's work, check out the details below:
Podcast (The Story of Divorce): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-story-of-divorce/id1586957709
Gov.uk link on No Fault Divorce: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/blame-game-ends-as-no-fault-divorce-comes-into-force
Check out Deborah's suggestions:
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
Kathryn Hughes: Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Hallie Rubenhold: The Five
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
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In this episode I'm joined by Dr Anna Gasperini, where we discuss her work on children's literature and child nutrition. We discuss how food in children's literature sublimates and represents a lot of things, including 'taboo' subjects. Children's literature was previously seen as unsophisticated in the academy (like fantasy), which segues into a brief chat about Terry Pratchett's Discworld! We then continue to consider how food was linked to the acceptable and unacceptable body and how that notion is constructed in society, reinforced or challenged in children's literature. The greedy child and the mal/nourished child, and how these both are seen as unacceptable within 19th century.
Trigger warning for some dark children's literature.
About my guest: Dr Anna Gasperini is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Caâ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She has just completed a Marie SkĆodowska-Curie Actions research project on English and Italian nineteenth-century childrenâs literature and the history of child nutrition. Her most recent article on the topic, âThe âGluttonous Childâ Narrative in Italy and Britain: A Transnational Analysisâ, has been published OA in the Journal of Victorian Culture. She is the author of Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine, and Anatomy - The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
For more information on Anna's work, check out the details below:
Twitter: @AnnaGDreadful
Latest Articles (Full links for these are open access and will be available on our FB page!):
âLittle Precossi, Stunted Becky: A Comparative Analysis of Child Hunger and National Body Health Discourses in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Childrenâs Literature in Italian and Englishâ. Modern Languages Open, (1), 2022, p.2.
âThe âGluttonous Childâ Narrative in Italy and Britain: A Transnational Analysisâ. Journal of Victorian Culture, 2022,
ââI know I'm fatterâ: hunger and bodily awareness in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Gardenâ. Rhesis â International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature. Issue 11.2, 2020.
Check out Anna's suggestions:
Terry Pratchett - Dodger
Christina Rossetti - Speaking Likenesses
Hugh Cunningham - The Invention of Childhood
Sarah Wise - The Italian Boy
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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In this episode I'm joined by Michelle Ravenscroft, who has recently co-edited the third volume of the popular Talking Bodies series. We chat about our shared experience at Talking Bodies and how Michelle's MA thesis on identity formation in adolescents in the long 19th century literature was turned into a chapter. We also discuss her foundational stages of the PhD project she is working on, on the importance of the Portico Library in Manchester, through readings of The Manchester Man. We also share our love of interdisciplinarity as we debate why the nineteenth century continues to influence and fascinate society today.
About my guest: Michelle Ravenscroft is an educational consultant and a second year part-time PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research proposes to interrogate the importance of the Portico Library, Manchester, and the significance of Northern identity and place in the nineteenth-century text The Manchester Man. In her spare-time she enjoys editing book collections, and recently finished co-editing Talking Bodies III for University of Chester Press.
For more information on Michelle's work, check out the details below:
PGR/ECR Long 19th Century Twitter: @l19thc
https://long19century.wordpress.com
Talking Bodies III - https://storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12_14&products_id=1067
Check out Michelle's suggestions:
Isabella Banks - The Manchester Man
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
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In this episode I'm joined by Michelle Reynolds, who researches into representations of the New Woman in fin de siĂšcle illustration. We discuss how the New Woman was featured in art, specifically in illustration. We observe how fairy tales writers like Evelyn Sharp used these to push forward ideas about feminism, reflecting what was in New Woman fiction but aiming these ideas at children. We consider how such tales explored gender identity and dress, coinciding with how the New Woman's dress was seen as a threat to society (alongside demasculinised men and the dandy figure)
About my guest: Michelle Reynolds is a PhD student at the University of Exeter. Her thesis looks at the relationship between the New Womanâs emergence and the professionalism of women illustrators at the British fin de siĂšcle as well as the New Womanâs visual representation and how women illustrators contributed to this representation. More broadly, her research interests include art and literature of the long nineteenth century, women artists, gender and sexuality, print and exhibition culture, photography, and fashion. She is currently a Postgraduate Representative for the University of Exeterâs Centre for Victorian Studies and a Board Member for the journal Romance, Revolution and Reform based at the University of Southampton. Michelle also has an upcoming chapter in the Women in Power collection (edited by Dr Fern Riddell, Dr Emma Butcher, and Dr Bob Nicholson). Michelle's chapter will be in Volume 1: "Bodies: Female Agency, Identity and Sex in the 19th Century". This is due to be published by Bloomsbury Academic in early 2023!
For more information on Michelle's work, check out the details below:
https://centreforvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/
https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/arthistory/staff/reynolds/
Check out Michelle's suggestions:
The Colour Room - movie about Clarice Cliff's life
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain - movie about Louis Wain's life
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
The Romance of a Shop - Amy Levy
Episode Credits:
Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
Twitter: @victorianlegac1
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