All Outputs (3)

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 University

For 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