All Outputs (570)
The bloody chamber: Anatomising female Gothic (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bloody women (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
“His prints we read”: The masonic narratives of punishment and Jacobitism in William Hogarth and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The cask of amontillado” (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hogarth’s masonic iconography: The metaphors of secrecy, perjury and punishment (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Menstrual mythologies: Vampires, stigmatics and the cult of the Medusa (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
black.white (2002)
Exhibition / Performance
Script for performance.
Rediscovering Hardy's "Facts" notebook (2000)
Book Chapter
From his early twenties, until his death, Thomas Hardy was an habitual - even obsessive - note-taker. He kept notebooks, some of pocket-size, from early on in his career, only to destroy most of them or leave instructions that the remainder should be... Read More about Rediscovering Hardy's "Facts" notebook.
Revisiting Edward Aveling (2000)
Book Chapter
While the mythologising of nature in British writing at the end of the long nineteenth century has been often regarded as nostalgic, escapist and evasive, this chapter argues that such writing found in the cult of ‘Pan’ and ‘The Open Road’ imaginativ... Read More about Revisiting Edward Aveling.
"Pan" and the open road (2000)
Book Chapter
While the mythologising of nature in British writing at the end of the long nineteenth century has been often regarded as nostalgic, escapist and evasive, this chapter argues that such writing found in the cult of ‘Pan’ and ‘The Open Road’ imaginativ... Read More about "Pan" and the open road.
Dracula at the millennium: Is there a future for the undead? (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Writing for their lives: Writers on America's death row (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The Lunacy of Rosina Bulwer Lytton: The Secret Sodomy Scandal (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The Whirlpool (1997)
Book
George Gissing's The Whirlpool (1897) is generally regarded as one of the novelist's most critically significant and successful works in the breadth of its subject matter and depth of characterisation. This edition comprises a critical introduction... Read More about The Whirlpool.
Vampirism and menstruation (1997)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Her right his name: The lunacy and libel of Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Front Matter (1996)
Book Chapter
What were the sources of pleasure during the eighteenth century? The range of pleasurable activities from the bawdy and perverse to the refined are brought together in this collection of essays, which is the first to look at both the philosophy and p... Read More about Front Matter.
Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880-1940 (1994)
Book
Towards the end of the nineteenth century many affluent and educated people, influenced by developments in medical, biological and psychiatric sciences, became convinced that ignorance, insanity and criminality - even homosexuality and hysteria - wer... Read More about Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880-1940.
Fitness and the Fin de Siècle (1992)
Book Chapter
In 1901, William Morris’s biographer J. W. Mackail gave a lecture on Morris to the I.L.P. Mackail infused the occasion with a pronounced sense of an ending. There was a feeling abroad, he said, that the nineteenth century had been a failure. Ideals h... Read More about Fitness and the Fin de Siècle.