Fiction

Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood: A Romance

Submitted by Rebecca Nesvet on

Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood: A Romance (1845-7) is one of the longest-running and most successful Victorian penny fiction serials, popularly termed "penny bloods." Written by James Malcolm Rymer, the creator of penny fiction villain Sweeney Todd, Varney is an innovative, wide-ranging contribution to nineteenth-century British vampire lore; a missing link between Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).

The Brontes, Fall 2022

Submitted by Catherine Golden on

A madwoman in the attic, impassioned love, and a mysterious/abusive past.  Such sensational themes may seem ripped from today’s social media, but, in fact, they are the defining elements of the novels of the Brontë sisters. We will adopt new historicist and gender studies approaches to study arguably the greatest English literary family of the nineteenth century.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Fiction