[ecrea] Return of the Repressed: Gothic Studies Past and Present

The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Studies Past and Present at UEA An 
International Symposium 26-27th June 2015
Venue: The Forum, Norwich

Key Speakers

David Punter (Bristol)
Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam)
Peter Hutchings (Northumbria)
Helen Wheatley (Warwick)

Thirty -five years ago, David Punter published The Literature of Terror: 
A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (Longman, 
1980), closely afterwards Vic Sage published his Horror Fiction in the 
Protestant Tradition (1984), both while teaching at the University of 
East Anglia. Punter's and Sage's work established the Gothic as a 
serious and complex field of study; a position from which it has now 
grown to be one of the most popular and theoretically sophisticated 
fields of cultural enquiry, encompassing a wide range of forms, 
including theatre, film, television, computer games, and contemporary 
fashion. Later, in 2002, Rosemary Jackson produced her ground-breaking 
study The Fantastic. Over the years numerous critics of literature and 
visual culture more generally working closely with Gothic have been 
intimately associated with UEA. Similarly, major writers including 
Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and Rebecca Stott have created 
highly-influential Gothic and post-Gothic fictions while resident at 
UEA. This symposium seeks to mark, celebrate, and commemorate the 
crucial work of this generation of Gothic writers and critics, 
associated with UEA. It seeks to reflect both on the past of Gothic 
writing and criticism, but also to speculate about the present and 
future directions that Gothic studies may take in a twenty-first century 
global culture of diverse and ever expanding media culture of 
entertainment and information.

Registration details:

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