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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on January 30, 2024, 08:57:49 AM

Title: “Prey to some cureless disquiet”: Polidori’s Queer Vampyre at the....
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 30, 2024, 08:57:49 AM
...Margins of Romanticism

For a variety of reasons, I ended up reading this overwrought but interesting essay. The eventd at the Villa Diodati in the ruoned summer of 1816 are a motherlode for the overwrought. Memories of Gothic, the film by Ken Russell ( an a master of taking the wrought and overing it) flood back, and I note that the actors who played Percy and Mary Shelley, Julian Sands and Natasha Richardson,  died tragically young.

https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ron/2004-n36-37-ron947/011135ar/