March 2023
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19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
The article is a reflection on the category of the beautiful in the work of Professor Hilary Fraser in the context of Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College.
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Publications (87)
November 2021
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Aries
The Ghost Club was founded to discuss matters spiritual, psychic and occult in 1882 by Spiritualist William Stainton Moses and mystic Alfred Alaric Watts. It was intended as a club ruled by a gentleman’s code of honour—with all matters discussed kept strictly confidential. While maintaining secrecy, it also obsessively minuted and documented its discussions, leaving behind thousands of pages of records that have yet to be properly investigated, owing to conditions around their use. This essay is an attempt to examine the importance of the Club, and how it might readjust our understanding of the networks of the London occult in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras.
November 2020
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Textual Practice
This essay offers a taxonomy of the New British Landscape writing, first identified in 2008. It suggests five principal ways of organising this large and growing body of work: through the thematics of rewilding, trauma, folk horror, walking as counter-memory, and a fascination with provisional edgelands. The contextual framework suggests that landscape writing marks an attempt to bolster place against the abstraction of space in modernity, a tactic amplified by resurgence of nationalism since the financial crash of 2008. The distinct British version of this crisis has been marked by the sharply divisive Brexit vote, which inevitably cuts across many aspects of contemporary landscape writing.
July 2020
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6 Citations
Science Fiction Film and Television
April 2020
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Luckhurst attempts to document the resurgence of apparently authoritative claims about the existence of telepathy in the late 1960s and 1970s. He explores the Cold War contexts that prompted both the American and Russian intelligence communities to research psychical powers and to try to develop what they called “psionics,” new kinds of psychical technology or weaponized special powers. At the same time as these allegedly secret programmes, popular culture in the West became saturated with representations of psychic powers, from children’s TV, best-selling horror fiction such as Stephen King, and in film. After an attempt to map this terrain, the author suggests that this upsurge is in part trying to figure new forms of global communication, networked technologies and selves.
January 2019
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December 2018
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Annals of Science
February 2018
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56 Reads
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2 Citations
November 2017
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Book synopsis: Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel's various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. This Companion will serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might generate.
October 2017
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Book synopsis: Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from nineteenth-century pioneers to contemporary authors, introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the ‘scientific romance’ in the 1880s and 1890s. The ‘Golden Age’ of writers’ expansive SF pulp was concentrated in the 1930s, consolidated by best-selling writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. The contributors to this volume also track the increasingly diverse forms SF took from the 1950s onwards.Leading international scholars, writing in an accessible style, consider SF as a ‘world’ literature, referencing works from diverse traditions in Latin America, Europe, Russia and the Far East. This book combines discussion of central figures of the tradition with a new global reach.
Citations (25)
... While [analogous terms] are generally preceded by negative particles (in-determinate, im-precise, un-certain), this absence of limit precisely contains the expectation of mobility, vagrant roving, free time, liberty. (Solà-Morales 1995, 26) Edgelands have long been especially appealing to practitioners interested in and drawn to the processes and aesthetics of ruination, decay, hauntology and eeriness (Keiller 2014;Luckhurst 2020), and artistic explorations during the twenty-first century have been adjacent to "ruins studies" within the humanities and social sciences (seminal works include DeSilvey 2006; DeSilvey and Edensor 2012;Dillon 2011;Edensor 2005aEdensor , 2005bOlsen and Pétursdóttir 2014a;Pétursdóttir 2014). ...
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November 2020
Textual Practice
... Global kaijū films have been explored too, such as the British film Gorgo (Eugène Lourié, 1961) (Conrich 1999) or kaijū-adjacent films, to use Jason Barr's term (2023), produced in Hollywood and beyond. The includes the post-9/11 themes of Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008) (Hantke 2010;Pile 2011;Wessels 2011), the colonial border concerns of Gareth Edwards' Monsters (2010) (Butler 2024;Combe 2015;Deleyto 2020;Luckhurst 2020), the visions of transnational collaboration in Pacific Rim (Thornton 2014) or globalising Chinese modernity in The Great Wall (Zhang Yimou, 2016) (Kokas 2019;Yang et al. 2020). While there are a number of emerging areas in kaijū scholarship, the most prominent threads deal with the historical legacies of the Godzilla series, and especially the political tensions around nuclear power. ...
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Godzilla at 70: Time for Kaijū Studies
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July 2020
Science Fiction Film and Television
... Freud (1939) himself has widely recurred to literature and myth to demonstrate parts of his theory of the human psyche and collective trauma. Luckhurst (2008Luckhurst ( , 2018 discusses how popular cultural narratives have served to reveal psychological symptoms of certain epochs which would have been impossible to come to surface without their fictionalization. It has been found by many scholars and critics that film has a particular potential to address psychic realities and both personal and collective trauma, by articulating realities that cannot easily be rationalized and expressed in words alone. ...
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February 2018
... As Roger Luckhurst explains Fisher' s striking and novel examination of the eerie: " [Fisher] takes the eerie from lazy, everyday usage and gives it conceptual rigor: places are eerie; empty landscapes are eerie; abandoned structures and ruins are eerie. Something moves in these apparently empty or vacated sites that exists independently of the human subject, an agency that is cloaked or obscure" (Luckhurst 2017). Conspiracy theories are now themselves very much in the news: QAnon, for example, whose omnivorous narrative is so vast that it looks like a parody of conspiracy theories, but which has somehow become a decisive actor in American politics. ...
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Manning Before Creepypasta
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March 2017
... The growing interest in weirdness during our crisis-ridden contemporaneity has to do with the weird's se[ng in "unnerving edgelands" (Luckhurst 2017(Luckhurst , 1056: porous storyworlds that subversively comment on how unstable the real world is, and by extension how vulnerable human ontologies are. Within the environmental humani6es and weird scholarship this commentary has o`en been interpreted as earnestly environmental, or even explicitly ac6vist. ...
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September 2017
Textual Practice
... In Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film, Dr. Craig Ian Mann builds on his doctoral dissertation and previous writings to construct a history of the werewolf in cinema, from its origins in silent film to its proliferation since the turn of the millennium. Mann's first book, Phases of the Moon fits well within a burgeoning interdisciplinary field of monster studies (Cohen 1996;Asma 2009;Mittman & Dendle 2012;Koenig-Woodyard, et al. 2018), and presents us with an in-depth cultural history of the beast in the vein of Auerbach (1995), Abbott (2007, Hitchcock (2008), Bishop (2010), and Luckhurst (2012;2015). ...
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August 2015
... A obra de Bear constitui o que Lockhurst (2007) denomina evolutionary catastrophism -a tematização da alteração biotecnológica da espécie humana e suas implicações biopolíticas. A leitura que o crítico faz da representação da catástrofe nas icções de Bear traz um elemento interessante para a presente discussão, pela sua argumentação de que o catastrophism estaria inscrito na imaginação estadunidense, desde a visão apocalíptica dos puritanos, e que sua reimaginação pelo autor serve como uma espécie de história alternativa do estado: ...
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January 2007
The Yearbook of English Studies
... Our two minds seemed to have blended partially together. There are two centuries of literature on telepathy (Baruss & Mossbridge, 2017;Boyle, 2016Boyle, , 2021de Payer, 2016;Eshel, 2006Eshel, , 2016Eshel, , 2019Farber, 2017;Gilhooley, 2010Gilhooley, , 2017Gilhooley, , 2023Gilhooley & Toich, 2020a;Luckhurst, 2002;Massicotte, 2014;Mayer, 2007;Rabeyron et al., 2020Rabeyron et al., , 2021Reichbart, 2019;Rosenbaum, 2011) which I'd studied for the past twenty years. Beginning in the late-1940s New York psychoanalysts Jan Ehrenwald (1948Ehrenwald ( , 1954Ehrenwald ( , 1960Ehrenwald ( , 1971Ehrenwald ( , 1978, Joost Meerloo (1949Meerloo ( , 1964, and Jule Eisenbud (1946Eisenbud ( , 1970 wrote extensively about telepathy in treatment. ...
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January 2002
... As Roger Luckhurst muses: "My contention would be that the genres undergoing inventive hybridization and regenerative "implosion" -Gothic, sf, and fantasy -experienced such a revitalization in the 1990s because they could still find spaces outside the general de-differentiation or "mainstreaming" effect sought by the strategy of cultural governance. The low value accorded to the Gothic-sf-fantasy continuum allowed these genres to flourish largely below the radar of a cultural establishment often complicit, in complex ways, with the new methods of governance" (Luckhurst, 2003). ...
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November 2003
Science Fiction Studies
... With its typical ability to invert meaning, it is often unclear whether the Gothic imagination is working in the service of the Empire … or whether it is sapping imperial confidence by conjuring elaborate fantasies of … 'reverse colonisation'. 3 Within the fin-de-siècle Gothic was a body of texts that insistently Gothicised the country of Egypt and portrayed aspects of its society and culture, ancient and modern, as the locus of grave threat. It includes texts by major popular authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and H. Rider Haggard and by less well-known contemporaries such as H. D. Everett and Guy Boothby, not to mention scores of ephemeral periodical tales by entirely forgotten authors. ...
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January 2003
