Gothic: Culture, subculture, counterculture Conference Programme (Please see from p.7 onwards for abstracts and participants’ contact details) Key to rooms: AR= Anteroom RR= Round Room WDR = Waldegrave Drawing Room SCR = Senior Combination Room BR = Billiard Room/D121 Day 1: Friday, 8 March 9.00 Coffee, Danish Pastries and Introductions (AR) 9.30-10.45: Parallel Session 1 Panel 1A (WDR): Gothic and Genre Fiction: Ghosts and Crime (Chair: Brian Ridgers) Marta Nowicka, ‘Gothic Ghosts from Horace Walpole to Muriel Spark’ Victoria Margree, ‘(Other) Wordly Goods: Gothic Inheritances in the Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell’ Andalee Motrenec, ‘Gothic Elements and Crime Fiction in Dracula and Frankenstein’ Panel 1B (BR): Southern European Gothic Architecture Graça P. Corrêa, ‘Gothic Spatial Theory and Aesthetics: The Ecocentric Conjoining of Underworld and Otherworld in Regaleira (Sintra, Portugal)’ Viviane Delpech, ‘The château d’Abbadia in Hendaye (France) : Antoine d’Abbadie’s romantic and political utopia’ Giulio Girondi, ‘Gothic Heritage in Renaissance Mantova’ Panel 1C (SCR): Gothic in Contemporary Fiction (Chair: Fred Botting) Andrew Teverson, ‘Blood Relations: Salman Rushdie and Anish Kapoor’s Gothic Nights’ Nadia van der Westhuizen, ‘Happily Ever Aftermath: Fairy Tales in Contemporary Gothic Fiction and Television’ Martin Dines, ‘American Suburban Gothic’ Panel 1D (RR): Horace Walpole and the Cultures of the Eighteenth Century (Chair: Fiona Robertson) Hsin Hsuan (Cynthia) Lin, ‘The Castle of Otranto and Strawberry Hill House: the Curious Cases’ Jonanthan Dent, ‘History’s Other: Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and David Hume’s The History of England’ Zara Naghizadeh, ‘Horace Walpole’s ”Guardianship of Embryos and Cockleshells”’ Gothic: Culture, Subculture, CounterCulture An interdisciplinary Conference, 8-9 March 2013 www.smuc.ac.uk/gothic – Twitter: @StrawHillGothic – FB Group: ‘Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture’ 10.45 Refreshments (AR) 11.00 Plenary 1 (WDR): Avril Horner, ‘Walpole, the Gothic, and Surrealism’. 12.15-1.30 Parallel Sessions 2 Panel 2A (WDR): The French Revolution and its Legacies (I) (Chair: Cian Duffy) Christine Mangan, ‘Haunting the Text: The Femme Covert in Eliza Parsons’ The Castle of Wolfenbach’ Lucy Linforth, ‘Scott and Lewis: Radical Conservatives, or Conservative Radicals?’ Catherine Gadsby-Mace, ‘”God! ‘Tis the Bleeding Nun!”: The Dire Consequences of Female Sexuality’ Panel 2B (BR): Gothic Vampires in World Contexts (Chair: Fred Botting) Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez, ‘Bela Lugosi isn’t Dead…He’s Just Vacationing in the Caribbean’ Cristina Pérez Arranz, ‘The Vampire as a Femme Fatale: A comparison between American and Romanian literature’ Panel 2C (SCR): Theorising the Gothic: Enlightenment, Modernity, Progress (Chair: Jon Hackett) Rolf P. Lessenich, ‘Gothic Narratives, the Exploration of the Unconscious Before Freud, and the Subversion of Progressivist Orthodoxy’ Mujadad Zaman, ‘The Revolution will not be replicated: The Gothic Revival the 21st Century’ Bill Hughes, ‘”Two kinds of romance”: Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance’ Panel 2D (RR): Gothic, Fairy Tale and Romance (Chair: Brian Ridgers) Manuela Adrigan, ‘The World of Gothic Romance: Between Paternal Lovers and Haunting Mothers, or, Who the F*ck is Oedipus? Brittany Warman, ‘Awakening the Darkness: Towards a Poetics of Gothic Fairy Tales’ Marla Arbach, ‘Gothic Disruptions of Fantasy Conventions in Once Upon a Time’ 1.30 Lunch (AR) 2.30 Parallel Sessions 3 Panel 3A (WDR): TV Gothic, Now: True Blood and The Walking Dead (Chair: Maria Mellins) Johan Höglund, ‘”Please Kill Me”: Euthanasia and the Imperial Gothic’ Derek Johnston, ‘Eruptions of the Abnormal: Gothic/Horror Episodes of Mainstream Television Series and Dominance of Rational Worldviews’ Dorota Babilas, ‘True Blood: Consuming Vampires in Liquid Modernity’ Joanna Babicka, ‘Hyper-Gothicism: Postmodern Gothic Intertextuality in True Blood’ 2 Gothic: Culture, Subculture, CounterCulture An interdisciplinary Conference, 8-9 March 2013 www.smuc.ac.uk/gothic – Twitter: @StrawHillGothic – FB Group: ‘Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture’ Panel 3B (BR): Contemporary Gothic Subcultures (I): Crime, Dress, Sex (Chair: Jon Hackett) David McWilliam, ‘Sagacious Scapegoat: Marilyn Manson’s Subversion of the Moral Panic Surrounding the Columbine High School Massacre’ Kristen Sollee, ‘Cloak and Swagger: Gothic Drag in 21st-Century Pop and Hip Hop’ Tanja Jurkovic, ‘Introduction to S & M Subculture: Revealing the “Dark Side” of Human Character through Erotic Imagination and Fetish Role-Play’ Christine Vial-Kayser, ‘The Gothic flavour of the Chapman brothers’ Panel 3C (SCR): Adapting Gothic Texts Across Media (Chair: Richard Mills) Andrew Small, ‘Gothic and Surrealism: Valerie and her Week of Wonders (1970) Doreen Bauschke, ‘Haunted Bodies as “Gothic Desire”: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl’ Steve Gerrard, ‘Film Adaptations of H P Lovecraft: “The World is indeed comic; but the joke is on Mankind”’ Justin Everett, ‘Cosmic Gothic: Spatial Anxiety and Cosmic Horror in Weird Tales, 1924-40’ Panel 3D (RR): The French Revolution and its Legacies (II) (Chair: Cian Duffy) Imke Heuer, ‘”Prejudice and Principle crumbled at once to dust”: Harriet Lee’s Revolutionary Appropriation of Radcliffian Gothic’ Eva Čoupková, ‘”Vile treachery in my castle”: Subversion of Patriarchal Castle in Early Gothic Plays The Kentish Barons and The Ward of the Castle’ Sarah Winter, ‘Gothic Drama and Melodrama: From Revolutionary Anarchy to the Single Enemy of Napoleon’ Maureen McCue, ‘Prints and Profits: Samuel Rogers’ Italy and its Gothic Tales 4.30 Tea 5.00 Plenary 2: Michael Snodin, ‘The Castle of Otranto’ and the Topography of Strawberry Hill’ 6.00 Tours of Strawberry Hill House, Drinks (Café, Ground Floor of Strawberry Hill House) 8.00 Dinner (Walpole’s Gallery) 3 Gothic: Culture, Subculture, CounterCulture An interdisciplinary Conference, 8-9 March 2013 www.smuc.ac.uk/gothic – Twitter: @StrawHillGothic – FB Group: ‘Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture’ Day 2: Saturday, 9 March 9.00 Coffee, Danish Pastries and Aspirin! (AR) 9.30-10.45: Parallel Sessions 4 Panel 4A (WDR): The Initiation of the Gothic Dialogue in the Eighteenth Century (Chair: Cian Duffy) Ashleigh Pyke, Paving the road for men of brighter talents: The Initiation of the Gothic Dialogue’ Serena Trowbridge, ‘”By the blue taper’s trembling light”: Graveyard poetry and the Gothic’ Ronja Vieth, ‘The Irony of Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto’ Panel 4B (BR): Gothic and Industrial Spectres in Writing, Music and Steampunk (Chair: Michael Goddard) Michael Goddard, ‘Sonic Hauntologies in Industrial Musics’ Patricia MacCormack, ‘The Nephilim and the Necronomic’ Shannon Rollins, ‘Recalibrating the Past: the Multi-millenial Ramifications of Steampunk’ Panel 4C (SCR): Topography and Capitalism in Contemporary Gothic Fiction Rebbecca Duncan, ‘”Someone’s always buying”: Murder, Magic and Millenial Capitalism in Zoo City’ Frances Tomlin, ‘”Where the bones of the Earth show through”: Fiction and Scotland’s Gothic Wilderness’ Andrew Seeger, ‘The Gothic in the Contemporary Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski and Carlos Ruiz Zafón’ Panel 4D (RR): Gothic and Children Susan Ash, ‘Gothic Tropes, Monstrous Mothers, and Dr. Barnardo’s Promotional Vignettes’ Rebecca Styler, ‘The Gothic Child as Existentialist Symbol: The Counterpoint to Romantic Innocence’ Agata Zarzycka, ‘Seeing the Systematic Monster: Gothic Auto-Referentiality as Means of Reconceptualising Discourse in Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ 10.45 Refreshments 11.00 Plenary 3 (WDR): John Bowen, title tbc 12.15-1.30: Parallel Sessions 5 Panel 5A (WDR): Vampires Brittney Ostlie, ‘A History almost at Variance with the Possibilities of Later Day Belief: The Catholic Revival in Dracula’ Sara Cleto, ‘”I live in you; and you live in me”: Transgressive Love and the Gothic Vampire’ 4 Gothic: Culture, Subculture, CounterCulture An interdisciplinary Conference, 8-9 March 2013 www.smuc.ac.uk/gothic – Twitter: @StrawHillGothic – FB Group: ‘Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture’ Judith Rahn, ‘From Hideous Monstrosity to Glittering Beauty: the changing perception of the body of the vampire from the 19th to the 21st centuries’ Panel 5B (BR): Gothic Bodies: Hybridity and Decomposition (Chair: Allyson Purcell-Davis) Laura Kremmel, ‘Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die: Romantic Decompositions in the Works of Lewis and Dacre’ Anna B. Creagh, ‘Gothic Influences of Zombie-Lore’ Emily Shackley, ‘Gothic Hybrids and Fin-de-Siècle Thought’ Panel 5C (SCR): Stephen King (Chair: Russell Schechter) Amber Larner, ‘”A Nation under Siege from Within”: Stephen King’s Gothic Landscape as Post-Colonial Frontier’ Chia-wen Kuo (Veronique Kwak), ‘Stephen King’s Carrie as an Aesthetic Revulsion against Reproductive Futurism in Heteronormative Womanhood’ Jessica Folio, ‘Stephen King; or, the Literature of Non-exhaustion’ Panel 5D (RR): Gothic Design (Chair: Cian Duffy) Peter Lindfield, ‘Antiquarian Furniture and the “Modern Gothic” in England: An Unexplored Connection’ Jonathan Kewley, ‘A Grave Dilemma: Gothic Grave Monuments of the 18th and early 19th centuries’ Jana Gavriliu, ‘The Haunting Promise of “Female Pictorial Gothic”: Dress, Scarves, Hats, Wreaths, Tiaras, Beads and Ribbons as Gothic Fashionable Pasts, and Gothic Fashionable Expected Futures in Dutch and Flemish Painting’ 1.30 Lunch (AR) 2.30-4.30 Parallel Sessions 6 Panel 6A (WDR): The Nineteenth-Century Gothic