text by Paweł Rutkowski At the turn of the 18th century, what could be called the London culture of display accelerated its growth and became a truly significant part of everyday social life. Going out and seeing things that were considered interesting became a fashionable pastime, considered so attractive that more and more people were […]
text by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish We all know the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – the story of two different personalities trapped in one body. But in the case of Craig Russell’s Hyde this knowledge is used against the reader: you think you know what to expect and consequently miss the clues. The novel […]
text by Dorota Babilas The University of Dundee will be hosting The Year of Gothic Women conference on 29-31 August. One of the QAQV members, Dorota Babilas, will be there with “Musicians, Models, and Other Monsters: Gothic Divas in George Du Maurier’s Trilby, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Gaston Leroux’s Le Fantȏme de l’Opéra.” In the words […]
