Vampire Plants and Resurrected Dinosaurs: The Subterranean in Early Twentieth-Century German Literature

The literary subterranean has long been recognised as a site of myth, danger, and concealment. Amy’s lecture will investigate examples of the subterranean and its ecological links in Alfred Döblin’s German novel, Mountains Oceans Giants (1924), where an expedition to melt Greenland's ice results in the unleashing of dinosaurs and prehistoric monsters.

The Undead Past: Vampires and Demons in Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu

How does the past menace us through the vampiric and demonic figures in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ (1872)? Dr Potter’s lecture looks at how, and why, re-enchantment takes on monstrous forms; and why, embodied in vampires and corporeal demons, the past crosses into the present in strikingly new and jarring ways.