Victorian Legacies

By: Emma Catan
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  • 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.
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  • Episode 41: Carmilla Vibes - Halloween 2023 Roundtable

    Episode 41: Carmilla Vibes - Halloween 2023 Roundtable
    Nov 4 2023
    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 elements of the work, as well as the way Anglo-Irish identity features in Le Fanu's writing. We think about the way frame narrative benefits Gothic literature overall, and also how a Le Fanu renaissance could be occurring in academia and beyond, to raise the profile of these Gothic works.

    Bios:

    Dr Madeline Potter is an early career teaching & research fellow in the long 19th century at the University of Edinburgh. She works on 19th century gothic literature and theology, with a focus on monstrosity.. Her academic monograph, Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic, is forthcoming with University of Wales Press. She is also writing a trade book, The Roma: A Travelling History, to be published by The Bodley Head in the UK and Harper Collins in the USA.

    Dr Theadora Jean is a Gothic scholar and writer. She recently completed her creative-critical doctorate at Royal Holloway, and her research specialisms include the 19th century, Dracula adaptation, Romanticism, anti-racism, and interdisciplinarity. Her creative work is published under the name T.S.J. Harling.

    Dr Daniel Kasper is an Instructor of English at the University of Texas Arlington, studying the Gothic, Dracula, Shirley Jackson, Victorians, and feminism. His work appears in the journal Women's Studies, the collection Shirley Jackson: A Companion, and is forthcoming in an edited collection on Gothic Nostalgia, talking about Mary Poppins Returns.

    Check out the panel's Le Fanu suggestions:
    • Carmilla
    • In a Glass Darkly
    • Uncle Silas
    • Green Tea
    • Schalken the Painter
    • Madam Crowl's Ghost

    Episode Credits:

    Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
    Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound

    Check us out at the following social media pages and websites!
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
    Twitter: @victorianlegac1
    Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast
    Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/victorianlegacies.bsky.social
    Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/
    Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com
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    44 mins
  • Episode 40: Natasha Booth-Johnson - Nineteenth-Century Queer Fiction and Politics

    Episode 40: Natasha Booth-Johnson - Nineteenth-Century Queer Fiction and Politics
    Aug 7 2023
    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 were active in political movements and the ways in which their work also connects with queerness (as a broad concept involving sexuality, gender, and overall non-conformity).

    We also discuss the QueerNineteen website, which is a useful resource for scholars to publish short pieces, but also for the general public to access about topics involving queer studies; this sparks some chat about how information about 'non-heteronormative' identities has and is controlled in everyday life., such as the education system.

    About my guest: Natasha is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Birmingham. She is researching queer fiction by politically active female authors between 1882 and 1914. She has been running the website QueerNineteen since July 2022. Her research interests lie primarily in unconventional practices and marginalised communities, and she has previously completed work on Decadence and Spiritualism.

    This was recorded in early 2023 (January) hence the notes about industrial action!

    For more information on Tasha's work, check out the details below:

    Twitter: @QueerNineteen | @nkarlz
    Website: https://www.queernineteen.com/

    Check out Tasha's suggestions:
    Mr Sunshine - on Netflix

    Episode Credits:
    Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
    Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound

    Check us out at the following social media pages and websites!
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
    Twitter: @victorianlegac1
    Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast
    Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/
    Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com
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    42 mins
  • Episode 39: Valentina Gaio - Victorian (and Current) Attitudes to Slum/Working Class Diets

    Episode 39: Valentina Gaio - Victorian (and Current) Attitudes to Slum/Working Class Diets
    Jan 15 2023
    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 topic today, however, centres on Victorian views of food (specifically slum inhabitants' diets), and the similarities to contemporary 21st century food campaigns. Specifically, we focus on Valentina's study on Jamie Oliver's public campaign, and how Victorian/19th century attitudes towards poverty, disadvantaged communities, diet, and how to help marginalised people maybe have not changed as much as we might initially imagine

    About my guest: Valentina is a PhD student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, who's currently preparing for her comprehensive exams. Her field of interest is Modern Popular Culture with a focus on crime and horror. She is interested in queer themes, social structures and hierarchies, and grief. She is currently working on an investigation of contemporary English reporting of the French Revolution. In addition to her academic work, she is an editor of the literary journal The Lamp and a prose writer. She received her BA in Modern Foreign Cultures and Languages at the University of Parma, her MA in English Studies at the University of Venice, and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews in Scotland

    For more information on Valentina's work, check out the details below:

    Instagram: @popcompromp
    https://queensges.wordpress.com/reps/
    "Let Them Eat Nuggets": https://20vg41.wixsite.com/thedoldrums/post/let-them-eat-nuggets

    Check out Valentina's suggestions: (lInks to these can all be found in Valentina's article above)

    Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London by Ellen Rosson
    "Food and the Cooking of the Working Class about 1900" by Eunice Schofield
    "The provision of school meals since 1906: progress or a recipe for disaster?" by Alan Finch
    "Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets" by Dan Olson
    Sunless Skies, a Lovecraftian videogame with a Neo-Victorian setting.

    Valentina is helping to organise the Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature, so here is the live CFP: https://queensges.wordpress.com/queens-graduate-conference-in-literature-2/


    Episode Credits:
    Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma Catan
    Music: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSound

    Check us out at the following social media pages and websites!
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcast
    Twitter: @victorianlegac1
    Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcast
    Website: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/
    Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com
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    56 mins

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