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Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward : Botanical Poetry and Female Education
George, Samantha (2014-03)This article will explore the intersection between ‘literature’ and ‘science’ in one key area, the botanical poem with scientific notes. It reveals significant aspects of the way knowledge was gendered in the Enlightenment, ... -
Contemporary Werewolves
George, Samantha; Franck, Kaja (Edinburgh University Press, 2019-07-01) -
Foreword
George, Samantha (McFarland, 2013-12) -
'He make in the mirror no reflect': Undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction - Dorian Gray, Dracula, and David Reed's 'vampiric painting'
George, Samantha (Manchester University Press, 2013) -
'He make in the mirror no reflect': undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction -'Dorian Gray', 'Dracula', and David Reed's 'vampire painting'
George, Samantha (Manchester University Press, 2013-12-01)In this chapter I attempt to uncover the origins of the non-reflection motif and interrogate the vampire’s complex relationship to this optical phenomenon. I focus, to begin with, on Stoker’s handwritten notes for Dracula ... -
How Long Have We Believed in Vampires
George, Samantha (2017-10-31) -
Introduction
George, Samantha; Hughes, Bill (Manchester University Press, 2013) -
Introduction: undead reflections : the sympathetic vampire and its monstrous other
George, Samantha; Hughes, Bill (2013-05) -
Older Than Dracula: In Search of the English Vampire
George, Samantha (2018-10-25) -
Open Graves, Open Minds : Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture
George, Samantha; Hughes, Bill; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; English Literature and Creative Writing; English Literature (2013-05) -
Sam George In Conversation With Sir Christopher Frayling
George, Samantha (Cornerhouse Publications, 2013-07) -
Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany
George, Samantha (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-12-01)We may question the representation of Bram Stoker’s and Robert Browning’s Transylvania but we need to be careful with our contemporary desire to tie the texts too closely to their socio-historical contexts. This approach ... -
When wolves cry: wolf-children, storytelling, and the state of nature
George, Samantha (Manchester University Press, 2020-01) -
‘Wolves in the Wolds: Late Capitalism, the English Eerie, and the Weird Case of ‘Old Stinker’ the Hull Werewolf’
George, Samantha (2019-05-01)British folklore reveals a history of werewolf sightings in places where there were once wolves. I draw on theories of the weird and the eerie and on the turbulence of England in the era of late capitalism in my analysis ... -
Wolves in the Wolds: Late Capitalism, the English Eerie, and the Wyrd Case of ‘Old Stinker’ the Hull Werewolf
George, Samantha (2019-05)In this article, I depart from the earlier opinions of Emily Gerard, Sabine Baring-Gould, and others, who explained the disappearance of the werewolf in folklore as following the extinction of the wolf. I argue instead ...