Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition

Mulvey-Roberts, Marie

Abstract

In many ways, Bristol is a Gothic city, not just architecturally and through its involvement with the slave trade but also in regard to its literary heritage. Some of our most important women writers who wrote in the Gothic mode were inspired by Bristol including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Angela Carter.

Professor Marie Mulvey-Roberts will trace this hidden history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and will raise the question of memorialisation, particularly why women have traditionally been the recipients of fewer commemorative plaques than men. Earlier this year, in a sign of the changing times, a plaque was erected on the house where Angela Carter lived in Clifton. Carter was not only inspired by the topography and Bohemian culture of the city in her writing but also by its music.

Citation

Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, September). Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition

• Presentation Conference Type: Lecture
• Conference Location: Watershed Bristol
• Start Date: Sep 15, 2022
• Deposit Date: Apr 30, 2024
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11931546
• Publisher URL: https://mariemulveyroberts.com/inaugural-professorial-lecture/