text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko Ten years ago, I ran my Victorian Villains Revisited class for the first time. It focuses on contemporary revisions of three figures: ‘Jack the Ripper’, Mr Hyde, and Professor Moriarty. It has been popular with students (who doesn’t like a good villain?), and yet, this year, while prepping the ‘Jack the […]
text by Dorota Babilas A fascinating online lecture series Neo-Victorian Television, which ended two weeks ago, was organized by the Morphing Culture(s) Research Group at the University of Szczecin and hosted by a good friend of QAQV, Dr Barbara Braid. The 10-part series included talks by: Antonija Primorac on the Imperial Gothic in The Terror, […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko This question has motivated numerous texts – plays, novels, short stories, parodies, pastiches, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games – and apparently both their creators and the audiences are still fascinated with its (im)possible outcomes. Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper have developed in parallel and, up […]
