Emily Ogden is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on 19th-century American fiction and the occult.
Emily Ogden
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Don’t Go Back to Princeton
In Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed, life in Princeton, NJ, appears as an endless round of frigid isolation, punctuated by the occasional diabolically inventive rape. Circa 1905, a curse has fallen on the well-connected Slades and their milieu, leaving the cream of Princeton beset by vampiric predators, demon lovers, and sex criminals. It has evidently […]
