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| Matthew Gibson 'Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum' with Triona Adams | |
MATTHEW IAN GIBSON1 ; Triona Adams2
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| 2023-09-30 | |
| Size of Audience | 15 people |
| Type of Speaker | Interviewee about my novel |
| Abstract | Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum A young 'actress' has been attacked, suffering peculiar bite wounds to her neck; an event that announces a series of strange, vampiric happenings, and thrusts an unwitting Bram Stoker - acting manager of the Lyceum and aspiring author - into the limelight, and the action. Increasingly perplexed by the unsettling behaviour of his 'Guv'nor', the brilliant but mercurial actor, Henry Irving, and Irving's acclaimed leading lady, Ellen Terry, Stoker soon starts suspecting the worst. And then, another attack reveals a vicious Prussian baron, returned to London as a vampire seeking revenge… Alive with Gothic intrigue, reversal and surprise, Mr Stoker will keep the reader enthralled and confounded until its final, shocking scene - indeed, until its very last word. (interview by Triona Adams) |
| Other Abstract | Matthew Gibson Born and brought up in the UK, Matthew gained a degree in English with French at the University of Birmingham, and a PhD in English Literature (Yeats and Coleridge) at the University of London, before moving to the newly liberated Eastern Europe to work as an academic, first at the University of Łódź in Poland, then at the American University in Bulgaria. These were intriguing and chaotic times, and Matthew took advantage of his sojourns in these countries to learn about their histories and cultures, as well as to learn their languages. It also piqued his interest in British, French and indeed Irish literature set in the region – not least Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which fed into his emerging interest in, and research into, the Gothic. Returning to the UK, Matthew worked at a number of British universities, including at De Montfort and the Universities of Surrey and Hull, before leaving once more to work as Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau. Author of a number of academic works including Dracula and the Eastern Question: British and French vampire narratives of the nineteenth-century Near East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and The Fantastic and European Gothic: History, literature and the French Revolution (University of Wales Press, 2013), co-editor of Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World (Clemson University Press, 2018), and contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Dracula (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Matthew – a former Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge – is currently curator of Stoker resources for cutting-edge research resource, Oxford Bibliographies. Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum is his first novel (though he hopes to write a series!) This event is free to attend and fancy, gothic dress is encouraged! Join us at 3pm on the third floor of the shop. |
| Keyword | Novel, Stoker, Vampires, Fiction |
| URL | View the original |
| Conference Date | 2024-09-30 (3-4 pm) |
| Conference Place | Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Language | 英語English |
| Document Type | Presentation |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH |
| Affiliation | 1.University of Macau 2.Blackwell's Bookshop Oxford |
| First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | MATTHEW IAN GIBSON,Triona Adams. Matthew Gibson 'Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum' with Triona Adams, 2024-09-30 (3-4 pm). |
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