Sheffield Gothic is delighted to announce the title and abstract for our keynote lecture at the upcoming 'Reimagining the Gothic: Gothic Spaces,' taking place on 12th -13th May 2017. This year our keynote will be given by the wonderful Dale Townshend, Professor of Gothic Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Towards a Poetics of Gothic Space: From Bachelard to
Beckford and Beyond
This lecture seeks to assess the
applicability of Gaston Bachelard’s influential phenomenology of architecture
in The Poetics of Space (1958) to the
reading of ‘Gothic space’, be that architectural space as it is presented in
Gothic fiction, or in such ‘real-life’ Gothic spaces as Horace Walpole’s
Strawberry Hill and William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey. Although, in its
concerns with attics, cellars and the dream-like return of the houses of the
past to those who once inhabited them, Bachelard’s thesis appears to offer much
to students of the literary and architectural Gothic, the usefulness of his
account, the lecture argues, is considerably attenuated by his deliberate
exclusion of salient Gothic examples.
Working systematically through a range of fictional and actual
architectural spaces from the eighteenth century to the present day, this
lecture attempts to construct an alternative poetics of Gothic space, one
founded precisely on the Gothic impulses that Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space refuses to countenance.
Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic
Literature in the Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan
University. His most recent publications
include The Gothic World (with
Glennis Byron; Routledge, 2014) and Romantic
Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (with Angela Wright; Edinburgh University
Press, 2016). The recipient of an AHRC
Leadership Fellowship (June 2015–December 2016), he is currently completing Writing Britain’s Ruins, 1700–1850 and Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance and the
Architectural Imagination, 1760–1840, two major projects that explore the
relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic fiction, drama and poetry
in the long eighteenth century.
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Reimagining the Gothic 2017: Gothic Spaces is generously sponsered by the AHPGR Forum and the Alumni Foundation at the University of Sheffield.
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