Pernicious properties: from haunted to horror housesan interview with Evert Jan van Leeuwen
- Mónica Fernández Jiménez entrev.
- Evert Jan van Leeuwen entrevistado
ISSN: 2695-4168
Argitalpen urtea: 2022
Zenbakien izenburua: Conversations on the gothic in popular culture
Alea: 3
Zenbakia: 2
Orrialdeak: 44-56
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: REDEN [Nueva época]: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos
Garapen Iraunkorreko Helburuak
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen is a lecturer in English-language literature at Leiden University, in the Nether-lands. He researches fantastic fictions and counter cultures from the eighteenth century to the present.He is also interested in the international, intertextual dimensions of genres like Gothic, Horror and Science Fiction, and explores how they manifest in the British Isles, the Low Countries, and North America. He has recently co-edited the volume Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English Lan-guage Gothic Writing, Filmand New Media(2019) with Michael Newton and has written articles and chapters about American gothic authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, amongst others. In relation to this, hehas also published House of Usher(2019) a book analyzingPoe’s famous story “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839), Richard Matheson’s related film script and the cinematic adaptation by Roger Corman in the context of the 1960s counter-culture.