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DTSTART:19960101T000000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:19961027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260427T061550Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260317T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260317T190000 SUMMARY:Italian Studies Research Seminar - Dr Eleanor Dobson TZID:Europe/London UID:20260317-8ac672c79ce70de4019ce7c0671304d8@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20260313T151112Z DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the final Italian Studies research seminar of this term\, with Dr Eleanor Dobson\, Associate Professor in the Depa rtment of English Literature\, University of Birmingham\, whose talk is entitled\, ‘Seeing Double: Pompeii\, the Gothic Imagination and Anglopho ne Archaeological Fantasy’. Dr Dobson’s talk crosses disciplines and wil l speak to research across the Faculty (see below). The seminar is in FA B5.03 from 5-7pm on Tuesday 17th March. All welcome! Abstract This talk begins by examining the formative role of Italy – its ruins\, excavation s\, and mythicised landscapes – in shaping the early Anglophone Gothic i magination\, inspiring texts by British authors responding to Italy from afar or through travel. Beginning with Horace Walpole\, whose The Castl e of Otranto (1764) – often pinpointed as the first Gothic novel – not o nly situates itself in an Italian setting but also frames its narrative through the faux rediscovery of a supposedly Neapolitan incunabulum\, th e talk opens by establishing how Italy’s material past became a catalyst for eighteenth‑century Gothic sensibilities. Walpole’s own encounters w ith the excavations at Herculaneum and\, after his death\, the transfer of Pompeiian artefacts from his collection to that of William Beckford ( author of the Gothic-Orientalist fever-dream Vathek [1798])\, further il luminate how the nascent discipline of archaeology informed the concerns of the Gothic as the genre emerged and crystallised. Pompeii provides t he most striking early example of this convergence. Systematically excav ated from 1748\, the site offered not only classical architecture and ar tworks but the profoundly uncanny traces of the dead themselves. The imp ression of a woman’s breast found in 1772 and\, later\, Giuseppe Fiorell i’s plaster casts of victims frozen in the moment of death (pioneered fr om 1863) themselves inspired countless poetic and artistic engagements t hat reveal a persistent cultural impulse to animate\, aestheticise and e ven romanticise the dead. Such bodily ‘doubles’ (and counterparts immort alised in text) embody the Freudian uncanny: simultaneously human and no t‑human\, corpse and artefact\, subject and object. In later literature and travel writing to which the talk then turns – from Felicia Hemans to Mark Twain\, and subsequently in cinema – Pompeii (re)emerges as a site where archaeology performs a kind of Gothic resurrection\, collapsing t emporal strata and confronting audiences with the persistence of a perpe tually haunting past. By situating these Anglophone responses within Ita ly’s central role as both physical site and cultural imaginary\, I argue that archaeology in Italy did not merely influence Gothic literature: i t offered the quintessential terrain through which British and American writers – even when geographically distant – conceived of their own unca nny encounters with history\, materiality and the dead. Subsequently\, e ven in diverse genres\, we see Pompeii retain a singular Gothic gravity\ , a place where ancient and modern bodies repeatedly surface as uncanny doubles of one another. LOCATION:FAB5.03 URL: ATTACH: CATEGORIES:Italian Seminar LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T151112Z ORGANIZER;CN=Sue Rae: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR