Hi everybody: I’m excited to be able to share a new special issue from the Midland History journal on the ‘Haunted Midlands’ – all articles open access! Thanks to all involved! Please share with anyone who might enjoy spooky Midlands! www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/4... - ThreadSky

jfpackham.bsky.social • 91 days ago

Hi everybody: I’m excited to be able to share a new special issue from the Midland History journal on the ‘Haunted Midlands’ – all articles open access! Thanks to all involved!
Please share with anyone who might enjoy spooky Midlands!

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/49/3

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moonponysophia.bsky.social•91 days ago

Looks like an excellent article.

jfpackham.bsky.social•91 days ago

Midland History is a history journal, so I'm really grateful for the editorial board for allowing us this foray into literary and cultural studies!

They're keen for more in this vein, too! So, lit folks, do reach out to them – and I'm happy to chat about the experience, as well.

jfpackham.bsky.social•91 days ago

The Introduction to the special issue does some critical set-up around gothic regionalism and the Midlands, mostly via short close readings of 6 key authors –and the Commonwealth Games...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0047729X.2024.2428451

jfpackham.bsky.social•91 days ago

The first research article by Imogen Peck is on the ghosts of Britain's Civil Wars and their place in the Midlands as well as the gothic literature and spiritualism.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0047729X.2024.2428450?needAccess=true

jfpackham.bsky.social•91 days ago

Next, Nicola Bowring explores the centrality of Nottinghamshire, especially Newstead Abbey, to the early gothic tradition: looking at Walpole, Radcliffe, Byron and Irving.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0047729X.2024.2428452?needAccess=true

jfpackham.bsky.social•91 days ago

Then, Scott Brewster examines the connections between Bram Stoker's Lair of the White Worm and the folk horror film Penda's Fen, via their shared interest in Mercia and questions of belonging, hybridity, and insiders/outsiders.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0047729X.2024.2428449?needAccess=truearti

jfpackham.bsky.social•91 days ago

In my piece, I think about what the Midlands and its canal network can offer blue humanities scholarship, via case studies of Robert Aickman, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and LTC Rolt.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0047729X.2024.2428454?needAccess=truear

g0blinegg.bsky.social•89 days ago

This is so cool!

jfpackham.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thank you!

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