What happens when you try to keep a railway in your pocket? Or take a horse into a courtroom filled with automata? In this podcast, recorded as part of the Late Summer Lecture Series 2013, Elizabeth Drialo introduces Charles Dickens's The Mudfog Papers, which can be considered to be an example of Victorian steampunk.

Recording courtesy of Dr. Alistair Brown, Department of English Studies, Durham University.

Dickensian Steampunk: Charles Dickens and His Overlooked Mudfog Papers - Elizabeth Drialo

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights famously features a house and its characters haunted by ghosts.  What can the reader learn by extending this haunting to the author's rendering of place?   James Quinnell delves into Brontë's poetry as a intricate supplement and denominator re-situating  Wuthering Heights in a pre-Reformation sphere while contemplating the author's unease of living in the post-Reformation world.

Podcast couresty of Dr Alistair Brown, Department of English, Durham University.

Ghosting, Place And Wuthering Heights - James Quinnell

What if Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre had been born a man? Alison McManus explains how Branwell Brontë might provide the inspiration for a new novel that reimagines Jane Eyre from a different perspective. 

Podcast courtesy of Dr Alistair Brown, Department of English Studies, Durham University

Re-Imagining Rochester: Jane Eyre and Masculinity - Alison McManus

Hideous Repasts: Varney the Vampire to Hannibal the Cannibal

The Late Summer Lecture Series feature doctoral and post-doctoral research in English Literature at Durham and Newcastle Universities.  Attendance is open to the public as well as all university staff and students.

If you have any enquiries about the Late Summer Lecture Series 2013, please feel free to e-mail us at latesummerlectures@gmail.com

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