Gothic and Genre
A Swansea Day Conference on Saturday, 11
December 2010
This day conference, hosted by WAWR [Wales and the West Romanticism
Seminar] in Singleton Park, close – but not too frighteningly close – to
Singleton Abbey, the Gothic mansion built for copper king John Henry Vivian
and now haunted by our frighteningly efficient administrative magnates, will
investigate some of the subversive variety and generic instability of Gothic.
Plenary lectures:
Elizabeth Edwards (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
at Aberystwyth)
‘Iniquity, terror and survival: Welsh Gothic, 1789–1804’
Glennis Byron (Stirling) ‘Taste the difference: Gothic
genre/Gothic brand’
Participants include: Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent), Marie MulveyRoberts (UWE), Sarah Gamble (Swansea), Anthony Mandal (Cardiff), Mark
Bennett (Bristol).
The conference will also celebrate the launch of two new books on Gothic
by WAWR members:
Andrew Smith’s The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History and
Caroline Franklin’s The Longman Anthology of Gothic Verse
Abstracts, of about 250 words, for papers of approximately 20 minutes,
should be sent to Mike Franklin: m.j.franklin@swansea.ac.uk by 26
November.