William Hughes
British Gothic Studies academic
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William Hughes 's Degrees
- PhD English Literature University of Oxford
- Bachelors English Literature University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Hughes FRHistS FSA Scot is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, China: he has specialised in the study of Bram Stoker. He was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and the University of East Anglia, and also holds a PGCE from Christ Church, Canterbury. He has presented radio programmes for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, and has also appeared on live television through Living TV's Most Haunted Live!, most recently during the 2009 broadcast from St George's Hall, Liverpool. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and, in 2019, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Prior to accepting a chair at the University of Macau he was, for 26 years, a member of the English faculty at Bath Spa University, England, where he led teaching and research in the fields of Gothic Literature and the medical humanities.
William Hughes 's Published Works
Published Works
- Empire and the Gothic (2003) (66)
- Empire and the Gothic: the politics of genre (2002) (37)
- Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Fiction and its Cultural Context (2000) (32)
- The Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2014) (19)
- Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (1998) (16)
- Fictional vampires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (2012) (13)
- Introduction: The Enlightenment Gothic and Postcolonialism (2003) (13)
- Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature (2012) (12)
- Queering the Gothic (2009) (12)
- A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcoloniality of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2003) (11)
- Defining the relationships between Gothic and the postcolonial (2003) (11)
- Introduction: Defining the ecoGothic (2015) (10)
- “For Ireland’s good”: the reconstruction of rural Ireland in Bram Stoker’s 'The snake’s pass' (1995) (9)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Reader's Guide (2009) (7)
- The politics of transformation in the global crisis: are spiritual emergencies reflecting an enantiodromia in modern consciousness? (2010) (6)
- That devil's trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination (2015) (6)
- The Origins and Implications of J. S. Le Fanu's ‘Green Tea’ (2005) (5)
- Bram Stoker - Dracula (2008) (5)
- Bram Stoker: a Bibliography (2004) (5)
- Victorian medicine and the Gothic (2012) (5)
- Chapter 13: ‘Uncanny states’: global ecoGothic and the world-ecology in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled (2017) (5)
- Chapter 8: From Salem witch to Blair Witch: the Puritan influence on American Gothic nature (2017) (5)
- The encyclopedia of the Gothic (2012) (4)
- Bram Stoker, the Gothic and the development of cultural studies (1998) (4)
- Key Concepts in the Gothic (2018) (3)
- The Snake's Pass: A Critical Edition (2015) (3)
- Fictions of Unease: The Gothic from Otranto to the X-Files (2002) (3)
- "An angel satyr walks these hills": imperial fantasies for a post-colonial world (2003) (3)
- Geography in Its Relation to History (2010) (3)
- The Australian Colonies: Their Origin and Present Condition (2011) (2)
- Chapter 1: Introduction: defining the ecoGothic (2017) (2)
- An atlas of classical geography (2)
- ‘The Raw Yolky Taste of Life’: Spirituality, Secularity and the Vampire (2000) (2)
- The Casework Relationship: Le Fanu, Stoker and the Rhetorical Contexts of Irish Gothic (2017) (2)
- Bram Stoker's 'The lady of the shroud' (2003) (2)
- Chapter 3: Monsters on the ice and global warming: from Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons (2017) (2)
- “For the blood is the life”: the construction of purity in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' (1997) (2)
- Conscience and the Law (1992) (2)
- Introduction: Queering the Gothic (2017) (2)
- The Encyclopaedia of the Gothic (2012) (2)
- Gothic Criticism: a Survey, 1764–2004 (2006) (2)
- Chapter 9: ‘The blank darkness outside’: Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier (2017) (2)
- Chapter 7: Margaret Atwood’s monsters in the Canadian ecoGothic (2017) (1)
- Snake's Pass, The (2017) (1)
- “A strange kind of evil”: superficial paganism and false ecology in 'The wicker man' (2017) (1)
- “I resolved to play the part of a good samaritan”: Gothic metafiction in J. S. Le Fanu’s 'The room in the Dragon Volant' (2011) (1)
- “Terrors that I dare not think of”: masculinity, hysteria and empiricism in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' (1998) (1)
- Men, Masons and Melancholy: The Singularly Masculine Ghost Stories of Rudyard Kipling (2014) (1)
- Impersonal Grief (2018) (1)
- Introduction: Reading beyond Dracula (2000) (1)
- Dracula’s Debts to the Gothic Romance (2017) (1)
- Introducing Patrick to his new self: Bram Stoker and the 1907 Dublin exhibition (1997) (1)
- “This unfortunate book”: Bram Stoker and the Edwardian publishing industry (2021) (1)
- “Rumours of the great plague”: medicine, mythology and the memory of the Sligo cholera in Bram Stoker’s 'Under the sunset’ (2014) (1)
- How Anxiety Became Ordinary: Middlemarch, Feeling, and Serial Form (2017) (1)
- A biography of Bram Stoker (2004) (1)
- Gothic criticism: a survey (2006) (1)
- Looking through the Fence (1990) (1)
- Chapter 12: The riddle was the angel in the house: towards an American ecofeminist Gothic (2017) (1)
- A Manual Of Geography, Physical, Industrial, And Political... (2012) (1)
- The Sanguine Economy: Hysteroid Pathology and Physiological Medicine (2000) (1)
- Chapter 6: Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian ecoGothic (2017) (1)
- Popular knowledge and performances of the self In distributed networks: Social media in the aftermath of Black Saturday (2010) (1)
- ‘Who is the third who walks always beside you?’ Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land (2008) (1)
- “So unlike the normal lunatic”: abnormal psychology in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' (1995) (1)
- A Class-Book of Modern Geography: With Examination Questions, Notes, & Index (2010) (1)
- Reviewers (2008) (0)
- Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000 by Jack Fennell (review) (2022) (0)
- A quiet act of plagiarism: Bram Stoker, Wallis Budge and 'The jewel of seven stars’ (2012) (0)
- The Propagandist s Art (2013) (0)
- “The distilled essence of the town”: evolving vampires, degenerate mortals and the American urban experience (2004) (0)
- ‘As much a family as anyone could be, anywhere ever’: Revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls (2018) (0)
- Chapter 4: Algernon Blackwood: nature and spirit (2017) (0)
- ”The triumph of nature”: reading the west coast sunset in Bram Stoker’s 'The snake’s pass' (2004) (0)
- Delusions of pallor: sanguine depletion, eroticism and the economics of blood in 'Dracula' (2005) (0)
- “In a glass reflectively”: self-conscious parody in J. S. Le Fanu’s 'The room in the Dragon Volant' (2014) (0)
- “For the blood is the lifeâ€: fin-de-siècle secularism in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' (1995) (0)
- A class-book of physical geography, with examination questions (2010) (0)
- Famous impostors: true and false vampires in Bram Stoker’s fiction (1993) (0)
- Selected correspondence from the Commonwealth Government (2016) (0)
- Dracula’s debts to the Gothic (2017) (0)
- Your Jane Austen (2005) (0)
- "My little American mind, my Indian heart": the intercontinental Gothic of Poppy Z. Brite's 'Calcutta, Lord of Nerves' (2008) (0)
- The uncanny space of regionality: Gothic beyond the metropolis (2017) (0)
- On matters Gothic, then and now (2010) (0)
- Vathek: a Gothic journey to the Orient (2006) (0)
- 'Romances and gothic tales' and 'Albert of Werdendorff: or, the midnight embrace [1812]' by Sarah Wilkinson [book review] (2007) (0)
- The redemptive degenerate on the Montmartre omnibus: perverse eugenics and French decadence in Marie Corelli's "Wormwood" (2009) (0)
- Western Civilization Volume II: Early Modern Europe through the 20th Century (Second Edition) (1984) (0)
- “It must be something mental”: Victorian medicine and clinical hysteria in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' (1998) (0)
- The Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Ghosts and Legends of Wiltshire (2006) (0)
- “This strange personality that has been haunting you”: redefining ghosts and psychic doctors in Algernon Blackwood’s 'John Silence' (2010) (0)
- Low obscenity and lascivious attitudes: spectacle, seduction and male power in Victorian hypnotic séance (2015) (0)
- 'Bram Stoker and the stage' edited by Catherine Wynne [book review] (2019) (0)
- Chapter 1: The epoch of Mesmer (2017) (0)
- A class-book of modern geography : physical, political & commercial (0)
- Scripta manent: Bram Stoker and his publishers (2015) (0)
- A compendium of modern geography : physical, political, commercial (0)
- The Un-Death of the Author: The Fictional Afterlife of Bram Stoker (2016) (0)
- Chapter 3: Surgical hypnotism (2017) (0)
- Everton's FA Cup 100 : a century of glory and drama (2006) (0)
- Talking heads: reconfiguring post-mortem testimony in the ghost story (2014) (0)
- “A god-forsaken hole”: war work, labour migration, and the industrial gothic of L. T. C. Rolt (2015) (0)
- The sanguine economy: blood and the circulation of meaning in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' (1996) (0)
- 'Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot' by Janis McLarren Caldwell [book review] (2007) (0)
- Writers of Gothic (2009) (0)
- An atlas of classical geography, containing twenty-four maps (0)
- 'Poetical remains: poets’ graves, bodies and books in the nineteenth century' by Samantha Matthews [book review] (2006) (0)
- 'Marshall Hall (1790-1857): science and medicine in early Victorian society' by Diana E. Manuel [book review] (1997) (0)
- ‘Blackwood, Algernon’; Blood’; ‘Criticism’; ‘Hypnotism’; Kipling, Rudyard’; ‘Lovecraft, H. P.’; ‘Medicine and the Gothic’; Stoker, Bram’; and ‘Village Gothic’ (2012) (0)
- “Obscure diseases”: the multiple symptomatology of Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' (1999) (0)
- A class-book of physical and astronomical geography (0)
- 'Ghost stories and other horrid tales' selected and illustrated by C.W. Stewart [book review] (1997) (0)
- Chapter 2: Medical magnetism (2017) (0)
- “A medical impasse”: sexuality and the vampire in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula’ (1998) (0)
- ‘Un Vrai Monsieur’: Chivalry, Atavism and Masculinity (2000) (0)
- Chapter 2: Panic, paranoia and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel (2017) (0)
- Dracula and other novels: reviewing Stoker’s fiction, 1882-1912 (2004) (0)
- "The same, awful waxen pallor": physiology and vampirism in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (2013) (0)
- A Class-Book of Physical Geography (2010) (0)
- Pity and Terror: Theology, Morality and Popular Fiction (2000) (0)
- This Is Anfield: The Official Illustrated History of Liverpool FC's Legendary Stadium (2016) (0)
- "The curse of Ireland in our own time": Bram Stoker and the stage Irishman (2014) (0)
- "On the rim of the western sea”: sea voyages and the pioneering spirit in Bram Stoker’s later fiction (2000) (0)
- Western Civilization Volume II: Early Modern through the 20th Century (1981) (0)
- Geography in Its Relation to History: A Lecture Delivered at the Birkbeck Institution (2017) (0)
- Introduction: The most Gothic of acts – suicide in generic context (2019) (0)
- Bram Stoker (Abraham Stoker) 1847-1912 : a bibliography (1997) (0)
- The language of the Bible in Bram Stoker’s 'Under the sunset’ (1992) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Edited By Elton E. Smith and Robert Haas.THE HAUNTED MIND: THE SUPERNATURAL IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE. Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 1999. (2001) (0)
- Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848 by Clare Pettitt (review) (2023) (0)
- "The fighting quality": physiognomy, masculinity and degeneration in Bram Stoker's later fiction (2002) (0)
- Profane resurrections: Bram Stoker’s self-censorship in 'The jewel of seven stars' (1994) (0)
- Suicide and the Gothic (2018) (0)
- The romantic hero (2012) (0)
- The Taming of the New: Race, Biological Destiny and Assertive Womanhood (2000) (0)
- The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature (review) (2001) (0)
- “And the dead spake–”: technology and the voicing of post-mortem experience in E. F. Benson’s short fictions (2013) (0)
- 'Dracula and the eastern question' by Matthew Gibson [book review] (2008) (0)
- Dickensian bliss: the understated Victorian stylistics of contemporary British crime fiction (2009) (0)
- ‘The evil of our collective soul’: Zombies, medical capitalism and environmental apocalypse (2021) (0)
- 'The edge of the union' by Steve Bruce [book review] (1994) (0)
- The theatre of his beastly exhibitions: the erotic nature of early Victorian magnetism (2013) (0)
- 'Cure, comfort and safe custody' by Leonard D. Smith [book review] (2002) (0)
- Chapter 11: A Gothic apocalypse: encountering the monstrous in American cinema (2017) (0)
- Tomb hunting before Tutankhamen: Bram Stoker and 'The jewel of seven stars' (2014) (0)
- The economy of the human frame: phrenology and the nineteenth-century popular imagination (2020) (0)
- The Stoker lecture: Le Fanu and Stoker (2014) (0)
- Who are 'the people’? Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland' edited by Peter Shirlow and Mark McGovern [book review] (1998) (0)
- The madness of King Laugh: hysteria, popular medicine and masculinity in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula' (1998) (0)
- "A receptacle for valuable curios": the Edwardian Egyptology of Bram Stoker’s 'The jewel of seven stars’ (2013) (0)
- 'The shoulder of Shasta' by Bram Stoker [book review] (2000) (0)
- Gothic and the Coming of the Railways (2020) (0)
- Mythologizing the author of 'Dracula' (2015) (0)
- Kin conflicts and the polyandry/polygyny paradox (2014) (0)
- Gothic Britain: dark places in the provinces and margins of the British Isles (2018) (0)
- “This mystifying medley of ancient Egypt and the twentieth century”: Bram Stoker and popular Egyptology (1992) (0)
- The epoch of Mesmer (2015) (0)
- Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2 by Jack Fennell (2021) (0)
- George Eliot: Interdisciplinary Essays, edited by Jean Arnold and Lila Marz Harper (2021) (0)
- Romances and Gothic Tales/Albert of Werdendorff; or, the Midnight Embrace (2007) (0)
- Paradoxes in scientific inference (2015) (0)
- (Post)colonial, Queer: Lord Jim (2012) (0)
- Chapter 10: Locating the self in the post-apocalypse: the American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy and Jim Crace (2017) (0)
- 'We are the people' by Geoffrey Beattie [book review] (1994) (0)
- ‘A strange kind of evil’: Superficial paganism and false ecology in The Wicker Man (2013) (0)
- Bram Stoker: a biographical introduction (2004) (0)
- “Militant instinct”: the perverse eugenics of Bram Stoker’s fiction (1994) (0)
- Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts (2009) (0)
- George Eliot: Interdisciplinary Essays ed. by Jean Arnold and Lila Marz Harper (review) (2021) (0)
- The official EFC family album (2008) (0)
- "A noble manliness": chivalry and masculinity in Bram Stoker's 'The snake's pass' (1999) (0)
- Geography in its relation to physical science : an inaugural lecture delivered at Bedford College, London, October 12, 1870 (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Leonard D. Smith.?CURE, COMFORT AND SAFE CUSTODY?: PUBLIC LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. Leicester and New York: Leicester University Press, 1999. (2002) (0)
- Our ocean highways, 1871 (2010) (0)
- "Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody": Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England (review) (2002) (0)
- The End of Life on Earth?: discourses of risk in natural history documentaries (2010) (0)
- 'The faithful tribe' by Ruth Dudley Edwards [book review] (2000) (0)
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