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Mapping the Demimonde: space, place, and the narrational role of the flâneur, explorer, spiritualist medium and alienist in Penny Dreadful

Jun 12, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28

~  Amanda Howell and Lucy Baker  Abstract: This paper uses the perspectives and formative obsessions of familiar figures from nineteenth century pop culture and literature—the flâneur, the explorer, the alienist and the spiritualist medium—as lenses through which to...

Introduction: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful

Jun 12, 2017 | Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28

– by Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart and Anita Nell Bech Albertsen   “. . . the best characters are the most complicated ones.” — John Logan (Qtd. Thomas 2014)           In Season Two of television horror-drama,...
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