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London Fortean Society presents: 'The Haunted Landscape' (filmed at Conway Hall on 20 November 2021).
Sophia Kingshill - Bog Gothic: Images of an Ambivalent Landscape
Boglands are sites of contention: exploited yet cherished for natural riches; sanctuaries for the outlaw; life-giving devourers of life. In Ireland, they became a symbol of resistance and national identity. In Dartmoor, they have figured as threat, a famous example being Conan Doyle’s evocation in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Their soft menace may be subtly gendered as female, or more explicitly personified as noir anti-heroine. A brief exploration of legend and literature will try to sink below the surface of the wetlands.
Sophia Kingshill is the author of Mermaids (Little Toller, 2015) and co-author of The Fabled Coast and The Lore of Scotland (Random House, 2012 and 2009) with the late Jennifer Westwood. She is a member of the Folklore Society.
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To find out more about Conway Hall and its events, to become a member or to donate: conwayhall.org.uk • Please subscribe to our channel, too.
Conway Hall hosts a wide variety of talks, concerts, exhibitions, courses, performances, community and social events. It is also renowned as a hub for free speech and independent thought, hosting suffragettes, political radicals, scientists, philosophers, artists, performers; campaign, charities and other non- profit organisations.
London Fortean Society presents: 'The Haunted Landscape' (filmed at Conway Hall on 20 November 2021).
Sophia Kingshill - Bog Gothic: Images of an Ambivalent Landscape
Boglands are sites of contention: exploited yet cherished for natural riches; sanctuaries for the outlaw; life-giving devourers of life. In Ireland, they became a symbol of resistance and national identity. In Dartmoor, they have figured as threat, a famous example being Conan Doyle’s evocation in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Their soft menace may be subtly gendered as female, or more explicitly personified as noir anti-heroine. A brief exploration of legend and literature will try to sink below the surface of the wetlands.
Sophia Kingshill is the author of Mermaids (Little Toller, 2015) and co-author of The Fabled Coast and The Lore of Scotland (Random House, 2012 and 2009) with the late Jennifer Westwood. She is a member of the Folklore Society.
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To find out more about Conway Hall and its events, to become a member or to donate: conwayhall.org.uk • Please subscribe to our channel, too.
Conway Hall hosts a wide variety of talks, concerts, exhibitions, courses, performances, community and social events. It is also renowned as a hub for free speech and independent thought, hosting suffragettes, political radicals, scientists, philosophers, artists, performers; campaign, charities and other non- profit organisations.
