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The Victorian Gothic Archetype of the Mummy in Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lot No. 249

text by Konrad Zaręba Following our recent workshop, WLM: Rising Stars 3, titled “Spectres of Gothic Literature: Reflections, Reworkings, Reinventions”, which featured two presentations focusing on vampire characters, I was struck by the enduring prominence of vampirism in scholarly discourse. Among the variety of Gothic monsters, vampires continue to captivate audiences through their dichotomous nature, […]

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The Rhetoric of Imperial Gothic in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

text by Magdalena Pypeć Published at the outset of heightened British imperial activity, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (hereafter referred to as Edwin Drood) contains more colonial references than any other Dickens’s work. All these references situate the “ancient English Cathedral town” from the novel within the larger diverse imperial context and the anxieties that […]

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Spectres of Gothic Literature: Reflections, Reworkings, Reinventions, Or Warsaw Literary Meetings Rising Stars 3

text by Dorota Osińska Warsaw Literary Meetings have been an integral part of our research. This series of one-day workshops is organised to generate discussions and encourage cooperation among scholars with diverse research interests. Each workshop focuses on a specific theme in the literary and cultural life of the 18th and 19th centuries, examining the […]

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