Mar
2010

‘Desire with loathing strangely mix’d’: the vampire as femme fatale and fatal femme

Lamia, Lilith, serpent and seductress; the rich history of the female vampire serves to remind us that she did not appear recently as a feminist response to a heterosexual male-dominated society, but has been with us since the dawn of creation. Literally.

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Shellshock, Suicide and Septimus: Illness as a Metaphor in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
In this first international contribution to TEXT, Katherine Rossy explores Woolf’s depiction of shellshock-induced mental illness as a metaphor and how her novel attempts to shed light on the ailments of post-war society.

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