Look around. What do you see? How do the Victorians continue to influence our lives, our society, our entertainment? Join Emma Catan as we explore the legacy of the Victorians. Where fiction becomes fact.
https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 5 hours 26 minutes
Episode 41: Carmilla Vibes - Halloween 2023 Roundtable
In this episode I'm joined by my Dracula Vibes panel, Drs Madeline Potter, Theadora Jean and Daniel Kasper! We discuss how Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla influenced Dracula, and the legacy Le Fanu's work has today. We consider the queer...
episode 40: Episode 40: Natasha Booth-Johnson - Nineteenth-Century Queer Fiction and Politics
In this episode I'm joined by Natasha Booth-Johnson, who is researching into the intersections between queerness and politics in the works of nineteenth-century writers Edith Simcox, Mona Caird, and Isabella Ormston-Ford. We discuss how these writers...
Episode 39: Valentina Gaio - Victorian (and Current) Attitudes to Slum/Working Class Diets
In this episode I'm joined by Valentina Gaio. Like myself, Valentina's research interests are broad, from popular culture to crime and horror, and we initially discuss the contemporary 18th century media depiction of the French Revolution. Our main...
Episode 38: Dr Danielle Dove - Victorian/Neo-Victorianism and Material and Dress Culture
In this episode I'm joined by Dr Danielle Dove, whose research focuses on dress and fashion history, material culture, and literary celebrity. We consider how dress can be linked to the uncanny, utilising new materialism and object-oriented ontology...
Episode 37: Céleste Callen: Dickens, Bergson, and Temporality
In this episode I'm joined by Céleste Callen, who researches into time and temporal experience in 19th century literature. Specifically, we discuss her PhD which utilises the works of Henri Bergson as a lens through which to read the works of Charles...
Episode 36 - Dracula Vibes Roundtable
In this episode I'm joined by a special panel: Dr Madeline Potter, Theadora Jean, and Dr Daniel Kasper, who all research into Gothic literature (specifically, Dracula!) We discuss how their interest in Dracula began, and the different academic (and...
Episode 35- Dr Tom Ue - George Gissing
In this episode I'm joined by Dr Tom Ue, who has researched into authors such as George Gissing, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Prime-Stevenson. We begin by discussing how Tom developed his PhD from his previous studies into George...
Episode 34- Dr Louise Creechan - Nineteenth Century Legacies of Education and the Academy
In this episode I'm joined by Dr Louise Creechan, who has researched into Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies. We begin by discussing her PhD in illiteracy and how the nineteenth century saw the rise of mass literacy in England, and the creation of...
Episode 33- Dr Richard Jorge Fernandez - Irish Gothic, Galician Literature, and the Problem of Language
In this episode I'm joined by Dr Richard Jorge Fernández, who researches into the nineteenth-century Irish Gothic, especially the short story. We talk about how his interest in Irish literature began, and also about his current project which compares...
Episode 32- Manon Burz-Labrande - The Circulation of Penny Bloods and Penny Dreadfuls
In this episode I'm joined by Manon Burz-Labrande, who researches into the circulation of penny bloods and penny dreadfuls. We talk about how her research looks at how there are issues around canonicity, due to many publications being hidden still,...