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‘Embrace Your Dark Side’: Penny Dreadful‘s Season 3 Trailer

March 16, 2016March 16, 2016 by Megen de Bruin-Molé

About two weeks ago a proper trailer for the next season of Penny Dreadful was released. Various other obligations have kept me from looking at it properly, but this week I’ve finally been able to sink my teeth into it. Without further ado, then, my take on this 1-minute-and-45-second trailer. (Note: there will be spoilers for seasons 1 and … Read more

Victorian Monsters? Strategies of Appropriation in the Neo-Victorian Mashup

May 20, 2015January 10, 2016 by Megen de Bruin-Molé

This post originally appeared on the Victorianist, the postgraduate blog of the British Association for Victorian Studies, on 18 May 2015. It is reposted here with the kind permission of the editors. I should probably preface this post by admitting that I’m not a real Victorianist. The Victorians were one of my undergraduate passions, and … Read more