Ghosts and Sustainability: Charlotte Riddell's 'Walnut-Tree House' and Intergenerational Justice
(2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2022, November). Ghosts and Sustainability: Charlotte Riddell's 'Walnut-Tree House' and Intergenerational Justice. Presented at North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar, Manchester
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Time and the Terrors of the Shoreline in Dunsany and Wells (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2022, July). Time and the Terrors of the Shoreline in Dunsany and Wells. Paper presented at Gothic Interruptions: 16th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandThe shoreline is a popular stage for the end of the world in fin-de-siècle fiction – it is upon a shore that H. G. Wells’s Time Traveller witnesses the final remnant of animal life, William Hope Hodgson’s Recluse discovers the meaning of eternity, an... Read More about Time and the Terrors of the Shoreline in Dunsany and Wells.
Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2022, April). Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance. Paper presented at BSLS 2022 Annual Conference, ManchesterThere is a strand of nineteenth-century fiction interested in tentacled monsters based to a greater or lesser extent on cephalopods. Although the legendary kraken remained a legend, biology had learned a little about the real existence of giant squid... Read More about Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance.
Spectres in the Arctic: Whales and Arthur Conan Doyle (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2021, July). Spectres in the Arctic: Whales and Arthur Conan Doyle. Paper presented at Dark Economies, University of FalmouthWhales have long held powerful symbolic places in the art, writing, and folklore of coastal and sea-going cultures globally. Under the expansion of industrialised whaling in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, however, both the whales and their me... Read More about Spectres in the Arctic: Whales and Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2021, April). The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, OnlineSteven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) has accrued an eclectic but small body of scholarly criticism. With this paper I contribute an ecocritical analysis of the film, suggesting that the disruption to Elliott’s schoolboy life caused by... Read More about The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web.
Frankenstein’s daughters: girl scientists in children’s literature (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2021, March). Frankenstein’s daughters: girl scientists in children’s literature. Presented at Postgraduate Seminar Series, Online
‘The thought of it haunts you all your life’: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Arctic Ghosts (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2020, October). ‘The thought of it haunts you all your life’: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Arctic Ghosts. Paper presented at Gothic Nature III, Online
Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2019, August). Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale. Paper presented at Victorian Renewals: British Association of Victorian Studies Conference 2019, University of DundeeIn the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, weird fiction looks like a masculine tradition. While there are numerous women among recent ‘New Weird’ writers, female authorship of early weird tales barely shows up next to the success of H. P.... Read More about Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale.
The more-than-visible world: Algernon Blackwood, occult epistemology, and ecological ethics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2019, April). The more-than-visible world: Algernon Blackwood, occult epistemology, and ecological ethics. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science annual conference, Royal Holloway University
Frankenstein’s children: young scientists in children’s literature (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, September). Frankenstein’s children: young scientists in children’s literature. Paper presented at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1818-2018 : Circuits and Circulation, Università di Bologna
Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’ (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, July). Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’. Paper presented at 14th Conference of the IGA 'Gothic Hybridities', Manchester Metropolitan UniversityFor most of the long nineteenth century, the apparently hybrid biological workings and the unstable taxonomical status of moulds and fungi puzzled and fascinated scientists. Their ubiquity, plasticity, and position in what Ernst Haeckel termed a ‘bou... Read More about Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’.
‘The brain of a devil’: Arthur Machen’s Reconstructed Demons (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, April). ‘The brain of a devil’: Arthur Machen’s Reconstructed Demons. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science annual conference, Oxford Brookes University
Underwater Plastic Frankenstein (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2017, November). Underwater Plastic Frankenstein. Paper presented at Gothic Nature, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Twenty-First Century Picture Books (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2017, July). Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Twenty-First Century Picture Books. Paper presented at 13th Conference of the IGA 'Traditions and Departures', Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico
Bodily Knowing: Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Three Drugs’ and ‘The Five Senses’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2016, June). Bodily Knowing: Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Three Drugs’ and ‘The Five Senses’. Paper presented at The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century, Newcastle University
Doctor Moreau’s Pink Rabbits (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2015, April). Doctor Moreau’s Pink Rabbits. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science annual conference, Liverpool University
Energy conservation and biodiversity in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2014, September). Energy conservation and biodiversity in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine. Paper presented at Victorian Sustainability: British Association for Victorian Studies annual conference, University of Kent
(Re)encountering animals in William Hope Hodgson’s weird science fiction (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2013, November). (Re)encountering animals in William Hope Hodgson’s weird science fiction. Paper presented at The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genres, Birkbeck, University of London
Gothic at sea: revenants, doubling, and the liminal realm of the ocean (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2011, August). Gothic at sea: revenants, doubling, and the liminal realm of the ocean. Paper presented at Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, University of Heidelberg
The future was eternal night: evolution entropy and the death of the sun in Camille Flammarion's Omega and William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2010). The future was eternal night: evolution entropy and the death of the sun in Camille Flammarion's Omega and William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land