Dracula Lunchtime Bites 3 - Seance Spectres: Spiritualism and the Victorian Ghost Story

Description

A series of short lunchtime talks, intended for a general audience, delivered by specialists in Dracula, the Gothic and horror. A perfect distraction while you’re eating your lunch!

Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Florence Marryat were all Victorian authors who took literary inspiration from the ghostly world of séances. In this Lunchtime Bites talk, Dr Emily Vincent reveals the connections between the popular Victorian movement of Spiritualism – which involved contacting spirits of the dead via séances – and nineteenth-century ghost stories which featured mystifying mediums and summoned spectres.

This talk is free, but you need to book in advance (it takes less than a minute). Details of how to join the talk will be emailed to you during the morning of 11 December.

This event is part of Dracula Returns to Derby, an AHRC-funded research project led by the University of Derby in partnership with Derby Museums, Derby Theatre, Bournemouth University and Sheffield Hallam University. A series of public workshops and events connect the city with the world’s most famous vampire: derby.ac.uk/dracula.