All Outputs (154)

Selected loan artwork (2016)
Book Chapter

Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (2016)
Book

Strange Worlds celebrates the life and work of the hugely influential writer Angela Carter (1940–1992), 25 years after her death, and accompanies a major exhibition of the same name at the RWA (Royal West of England Academy), Bristol. Bringing togeth... Read More about Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter.

The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In August 1816, Matthew “Monk” Lewis arrived at Villa Diodati after having narrowly escaped being massacred in a slave riot in Jamaica where he owned two plantations. Shortly after his departure, Mary Shelley started writing about the monster. His co... Read More about The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity.

Animating the inanimate: Automation and Frankenstein (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Migrations of Catholic Horror and Bleeding Women (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The female Gothic body (2016)
Book Chapter

This analysis explores the evolution of the female Gothic body through literature, history and myth in relation to the Gothic tradition.

Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (2016)
Book

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, opera... Read More about Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal.

Masons and the Military in the Fiction of Rudyard Kipling (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Gothic writing, slavery and radical women in late eighteenth-century Bristol (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bristol has been recognised as a centre of radicalism, yet its association with three of the most important female radicals of the 1790s, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays remains obscure. The city’s links between Gothic buildings, sla... Read More about Gothic writing, slavery and radical women in late eighteenth-century Bristol.

Migrating medical horror (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mary Shelley and Bristol: ‘Workshop of filthy creation’? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction: Literary Bristol (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter maps the history of literary Bristol from the Middle Ages up to the present day.

Gothic Bristol: City of darkness and light (2015)
Book Chapter

Because of its links with Romanticism, Bristol has been referred to as a ‘Romantic City’, yet it could just as easily be identified with the Gothic. Over the centuries, Bristol has been the matrix for a significant number of Gothic innovations, insp... Read More about Gothic Bristol: City of darkness and light.

Literary Bristol: Writers and the City (2015)
Book

Literary Bristol tells the story of Bristol through its writers. Bristol has been recognised as a thriving port and commercial and industrial centre, as well as a city of churches, yet insufficient attention has been paid to its literary importance,... Read More about Literary Bristol: Writers and the City.

The Gothicisation of World War I (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Gothic excesses: Pride and Prejudice and zombies (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘The worse woman I ever heard of’: Representations of Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Impact case study: Raising awareness of prisoners through writing (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

British Poets and Secret Societies (2014)
Book

This book considers the importance of secret societies to a number of poets, including Christopher Smart, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Rudyard Kipling and considers the effectiveness of poetry as a medium for conveying secret... Read More about British Poets and Secret Societies.

The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter traces how the fragmented female monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is reintegrated within later texts. Her after-lives includes the digital reincarnation of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and that of the surgically modified body o... Read More about The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson.