The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Studies Past and Present at UEA
An International Symposium
26-27th June 2015

Venue: The Forum, Norwich

Key Speakers
David Punter (Bristol) 
Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam)
Peter Hutchings (Northumbria)
Rosemary Jackson
Rebecca Stott (UEA)
Helen Wheatley (Warwick)

Thirty–five years ago, David Punter published The Literature of Terror:
A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (Longman,
1980). The following year Rosemary Jackson published Fantasy: The
Literature of Subversion (Routledge), and, in 1988, Vic Sage
published Horror Fiction in the Protestant Tradition (Macmillan).
These three groundbreaking works were produced while teaching at the University
of East Anglia. Punter’s, Jackson’s and Sage’s work established the Gothic as a
serious and complex field of study; a position from which it has now grown to
be one of the most popular and theoretically sophisticated fields of cultural
enquiry, encompassing a wide range of forms, including theatre, film,
television, computer games, and contemporary fashion. Over the years numerous
critics of literature and visual culture more generally working closely with
Gothic have been intimately associated with UEA. Similarly, writers including
Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and Rebecca Stott have created highly-influential
Gothic and post-Gothic fictions while resident at UEA. This symposium seeks to
mark, celebrate, and commemorate the crucial work of this generation of Gothic,
teachers, writers and critics, associated with UEA. It seeks to reflect both on
the past of Gothic writing and criticism, but also to speculate about the
present and future directions that Gothic studies may take in a twenty-first
century global culture of diverse and ever expanding media culture of
entertainment and information.

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