Chris Baldick
Biographic Data
| ID | 956895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Baldick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldick |
| SIGNATURE | BALDICK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
English as a Vocation
Myths of cultural decline are not half as impressive as they used to be in the old days. In England between the 1930s and the 1960s, successive cohorts of Cambridge-educated schoolteachers and adult-education tutors would dismiss the idea of cinematic art as a contradiction in terms and warn against the mind-rotting encroachments of commercial television or rock music, while training their students in the literary discipline of ‘discrimination’ s…
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
‘Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: – to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, “a Vampyre, a Vampyre!”’ John Polidori’s classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori’s tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord …
Melmoth the Wanderer
Written by an eccentric Anglican curate, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new fever pitch of intensity. Its tormented villain seeks a victim to release from his fatal pact with the devil, and Maturin’s bizarre narrative structure whirls the reader from rural Ireland to an idyllic Indian island, from a London madhouse to the dungeons of the Spanish inquisition
Raymond Williams and English Studies
The social mission of English criticism, 1848-1932
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The social mission of English criticism, 1848-1932
Raymond Williams and English Studies
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
‘Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: – to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, “a Vampyre, a Vampyre!”’ John Polidori’s classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori’s tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord …
Melmoth the Wanderer
Written by an eccentric Anglican curate, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new fever pitch of intensity. Its tormented villain seeks a victim to release from his fatal pact with the devil, and Maturin’s bizarre narrative structure whirls the reader from rural Ireland to an idyllic Indian island, from a London madhouse to the dungeons of the Spanish inquisition
English as a Vocation
Myths of cultural decline are not half as impressive as they used to be in the old days. In England between the 1930s and the 1960s, successive cohorts of Cambridge-educated schoolteachers and adult-education tutors would dismiss the idea of cinematic art as a contradiction in terms and warn against the mind-rotting encroachments of commercial television or rock music, while training their students in the literary discipline of ‘discrimination’ s…
Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Fiction (2 works) · Fiction (2 works) · Fiction, horror (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Horror (2 works) · Horror tales (2 works) · Long Now Manual for Civilization (2 works)