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Nick Groom
Nick Groom is Professor in English at the University of Exeter and is known in the media as the ‘Prof. of Goth’. He has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, and among his many books are The Forger’s Shadow (2002), The Union Jack (2006, rev. edn 2017), The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (2012), The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year (2014), and editions of a variety of eighteenth-century texts, from crime writing to Shakespeare. He has edited Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (2014), Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (2016), Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian (2017), and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2018) for Oxford World’s Classics. His next book is The Vampire: A New History, which will be published this autumn by Yale University Press.
Books by Nick Groom
The Vampire: A New History
by Nick Groom
Professor Nick Groom's (also know at the 'Prof of Goth') history and contextualisation of the vampire narrative.
“The Gothic has been a term of cultural, social and political description for centuries. It was well established before the Gothic novel emerged in 1764. So we should really be telling the story of the Gothic from the very beginning: from the fall of the Roman Empire and the Gothic tribes. We need to understand how the Goths were contrasted by Renaissance commentators with classical architects and artists—which is why medieval architecture is today still called Gothic architecture…Many critics take its heyday as occurring with writers such as Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and Mary Shelley. But neither should we end the story at the beginning of the twentieth century. We should think about horror films, the American Gothic, and popular Gothic culture. Indeed, the Goth subculture—music, fashion and art—has had remarkable longevity.” Read more...
Nick Groom, Literary Scholar
Interviews with Nick Groom
The best books on The Gothic, recommended by Nick Groom
‘The Gothic’ can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films and a recent subculture. Here, Nick Groom—who is professor in English at the University of Exeter and is also known as the ‘Prof. of Goth’—recommends five of the best books on the Gothic, showing how this term remains central to the way we think of our identities today.
Interviews where books by Nick Groom were recommended
The best books on The Gothic, recommended by Nick Groom
‘The Gothic’ can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films and a recent subculture. Here, Nick Groom—who is professor in English at the University of Exeter and is also known as the ‘Prof. of Goth’—recommends five of the best books on the Gothic, showing how this term remains central to the way we think of our identities today.
The best books on The Gothic recommended by Nick Groom