The unprecedented popularity of the podcast Serial is closely linked to the producers’ unconscious debt to the seriality, narrative techniques and framing strategies pioneered by Victorian popular fiction #VPFAExtremes

And rounding off this panel we have Gregory Brennen talking about the roots of true crime podcasts in Victorian popular fiction, focussing on how Serial (2014) uses the same narrative techniques as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1859-60) #VPFAExtremes

Now we have Betty Hagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes

First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous in Arthur Machen’s fiction through the theories of German philosopher and theologian Rudolph Otto #VPFAExtremes

On our Brontës and Relationships panel, we have Kiera Clark discussing the extreme consequences of restricting female autonomy, focussing on Bertha Mason. Various forms of the gothic are central to this analysis #VPFAExtremes

Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes

And finishing off this panel is @emilieslaurent.bsky.social with her exploration of the monstrous extremes of gender in the figure of the castrato in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ #VPFAExtremes

Syrett placed the female experience of decadence centre stage, depicting decadence as a liberatory force for female writers and their female protagonists. Syrett is an example of the critically neglected female decadent #VPFAExtremes

Next we have Lucy Ella Rose discussing the decadent transformations of protagonists in Netta Syrett’s novels as they come to epitomise the transgressive extremes of the 'New Movement' #VPFAExtremes

First on the Aesthetes and Decadents panel this morning we have Christina Hafner joining us online to discuss art v. life in Wilde’s Dorian Gray and Hardy’s The Well-Beloved #VPFAExtremes

Love at first sight between ‘Sappho 1900’ Renee Vivien and American heiress Natalie Barney #VPFAExtremes

We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes

Next we have Professor Andrew King very appositely discussing the ‘Brummagem popularity’ of Granville Bantock’s song cycle Sappho #VPFAExtremes

Next we’ve got @ebutler-way.bsky.social talking about the legacies of Jane Eyre in A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott, particularly the role of fate #VPFAExtremes

Starting the Intertextuality and Adaptation panel, we've got Julia Kuehn joining us online to talk about Marie Carelli's novel The Sorrows of Satan and its stage adaptations #VPFAExtremes