Henry Bartholomew

Department: English
Discipline: English

Supervisory Team

 

 

Wider Research Interests

Literary interests range from 18th to early 20th century fiction and culture, with an emphasis on the legacy and evolution of the Gothic. Philosophical research interests centre on the interconnections and antagonisms between Speculative Realism and various facets of poststructuralism and New Materialism as they pertain to the understanding and interpretation of literary texts.

Conference Papers:

‘“Terrific Powers of Witchery”: Becoming the Environment in Algernon Blackwood’s Pan’s Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories (Gothic Nature II - University of Roehampton, London, 2019)

"Lovecraft Unbound: Nihilism, Speculative Realism, and Literary Criticism" (International Gothic Association - Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror - Lewis University, Illinois, USA, 2019)

"Face to Face with the Past": Time, History, and the Ghost in Vernon Lee's Hauntings: Fantastic Stories (Vernon Lee 2019 Anniversary Conference - British Institute, Florence, 2019)

"A Sluggish, Hellish Night-Abomination": Weirding Spectrality in the Ghost Stories of M.R. James (Tales of Terror - University of Warwick, 2019)

"Scooped Hollow!": Psychic Vampirism in Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (Reimagining the Gothic: Aesthetics and Archetypes - University of Sheffield, 2018)

Solidarity with the Supernatural: "Dark Ecology" in Algernon Blackwood's Pan's Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories (International Gothic Association - Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches - Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018).

Entangled: EcoGothic, “Environmentality”, and the Space of the Forest in Algernon Blackwood's The Man Whom the Trees Loved (Reimagining the Gothic: Gothic Spaces - University of Sheffield, 2017).

MA Dissertation: 

Form, Being and "Tristram Shandy": Notes Towards a Textual Ontography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authored Publications/Reports

Henry Bartholomew (January 2021) Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird , British Library Press

Henry Bartholomew (30th September 2019) Enstranged Strangers: OOO, the Uncanny, and the Gothic, Open Philosophy , Issue 1 / Volume 2 , 357-383