Posted by Laura Kremmel on September 05, 2011 in News tagged with celebrities, history of Gothic, internet, tabloids
Here’s a great article in the New York Times from this past weekend: modern celebrities as Gothic heroines and fame as a crumbling castle.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/magazine/tabloid-trainwrecks-reinventing-gothic-literature.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&ref=magazine
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About the Author – Laura Kremmel
Laura Kremmel has written 7 articles on The Gothic Imagination.
Laura holds an MLitt in Gothic Imagination from the University of Stirling and is currently a PhD student at Lehigh University, in Pennsylvania, where she also teaches. She has just begun work on her dissertation on un-whole bodies in Gothic literature of the Romantic era, but her exam field covered Gothic literature from the Romantic to the Contemporary periods, and she continues to be interested in all facets of the Gothic in her work and teaching. Interests also include history of medicine, drama and performance, visual arts, depictions of the grotesque body, mourning and melancholia, horror films, and (most recently) zombies. She also runs the Gothic Reading Group at Lehigh.
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