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 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 […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko The following text contains fragments from my latest article Transtemporality and Transmemory in Beforeigners: Or, “Jack the Ripper has timeigrated”, Again (Neo-Victorian Studies 14:1). Beforeigners (2019–) is an intriguing example of and commentary on the way in which transnational audiences and creators grapple with the myth of “Jack the Ripper”. The […]
