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‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2024)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C., & Mulvey Roberts, M. ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization. In Angela Carter's futures: Representations, adaptations and legacies. Bloomsbury. Manuscript submitted for publication

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was ‘canonized’ as the ‘Good Witch’ of English literature following her death which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This chapter... Read More about ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization.

Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (2023)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2023). Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve. In M. Costantini, C. Capancioni, & M. Mattoscio (Eds.), Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries - Genders/Genres/Genera (237-56). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40795-6_13

Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977) is a darkly satirical novel which explores the crossing of gender in the context of Second Wave feminism. Close connections will be made between this literary text and the visit made by Carter and her hus... Read More about Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve.

A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton’s Love in “The World" (2023)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M., & Nelson, R. (Eds.). (2023). A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton’s Love in “The World". London and New York: Anthem Press

Caroline Norton’s forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naïve young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season. Her encounters with both a worthy and an undesirable s... Read More about A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton’s Love in “The World".

Ghosts at an exhibition: From image to text in Angela Carter’s strange worlds (2023)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2023). Ghosts at an exhibition: From image to text in Angela Carter’s strange worlds. Gramarye, 69-82

For the 30th anniversary of the death of Angela Carter in 2022, I wanted to wind the clock back to her 25th and revisit the exhibition Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter, which I co-curated at the majestic Royal West of England Academy, Bris... Read More about Ghosts at an exhibition: From image to text in Angela Carter’s strange worlds.

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

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 Bris... Read More about Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition.

Angela Carter, Engineering Desire and The Matrix (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, June). Angela Carter, Engineering Desire and The Matrix. Paper presented at Nomadic texts and subjectivities: Metamorphic itineraries in/of Angela Carter’s Work, University of Angers, France

Paula Rego's witches (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, June). Paula Rego's witches. Paper presented at Crones, Crime and the Gothic, Falmouth University

This paper will argue that Paula Rego’s illustrations of Blake Morrison’s Pendle Witches (1996) make counter-intuitive and subversive interactions between image and word, to reveal unexpected connections with women and witches. I will suggest that he... Read More about Paula Rego's witches.

Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, March). Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?. Presented at Angela Carter: Radical Prescience, University of Chichester

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was "canonised" as the White Witch of English Literature following her death, which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This paper wi... Read More about Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?.

Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (2022)
Book
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2022). Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into Carter's pyrotechnic creativity and pays tribute to her inc... Read More about Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries.

Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination (2022)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022). Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination. In Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The dark economies of sexual myths (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, July). The dark economies of sexual myths. Presented at Dark Economies: Anxious futures, Fearful Pasts, Falmouth University

According to Foucault, the Victorian obsession with sexuality proliferated through discourse. This paper will begin by exploring how it spawned a lucrative industry in anti-masturbatory self-help books and devices, which for males rested on the pseu... Read More about The dark economies of sexual myths.

Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, February). Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution. Paper presented at Revolutionary Histories – Caribbean Literature, Slavery and the Gothic, Aarhus University, Denmark

Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose (2021)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021). Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose. In C. Bloom (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic (97-112). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_6

Edward Bulwer Lytton was a popular Victorian novelist and leading politician, who experimented with numerous literary genres including Gothic writing, the Newgate novel and early sensation fiction. His novel Lucretia; or, The Children of Night (1846)... Read More about Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose.

"Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol (2020)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2020). "Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol. [Live-streamed Video Presentation]

A Tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol’ virtual tour by Angela Carter Society at Being Human Festival of the Humanities, 14 Nov. Join author Dr Stephen Hunt (Angela Carter’s Provincial Bohemia) on a virtual tour of Angela Carter’s 1960s Bristol,... Read More about "Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol.

Angela Carter's curious rooms (2019)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019). Angela Carter's curious rooms. In The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities (1-16). Manchester: Manchester University Press

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III) (2019)
Book
Nelson, R., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2019). The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367814694

This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period July 1828-Deember 1837. The collection also includes an introduction and five commentaries by the editor, contextualising and embeddin... Read More about The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III).

Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, October). Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place. Presented at The Gothic, the Abject and the Supernatural: 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Mary Shelley’s novel has been seen as encoding the forbidden sexuality of homo-erotic desire and the taboo of illegitimate births. In regard to the former, Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori, will be discussed as a catalyst for her waking dream wh... Read More about Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place.

Poison and pens: Bulwer Lytton’s Lucretia in fiction and real life (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, June). Poison and pens: Bulwer Lytton’s Lucretia in fiction and real life. Paper presented at Captivating Criminality, Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions International Crime Fiction Association, University of Pescara, Italy

Global Frankenstein (2018)
Book
Davison, C. M., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2018). Global Frankenstein. New York: Palgrave

Global reanimations of Frankenstein (2018)
Book Chapter
(2018). Global reanimations of Frankenstein. In C. M. Davison, & M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Global Frankenstein (1-17). New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at i... Read More about Global reanimations of Frankenstein.

Frankenstein and hidden sexualities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018, November). Frankenstein and hidden sexualities. Presented at 1818-2018: The Silent Revolution: Of Fears, Follies and the Feminine,, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon

Frankenstein’s monstrous sexualities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018, July). Frankenstein’s monstrous sexualities. Presented at 14th International Gothic Association Conference - Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinarity, Multi-Modal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester Metropolitan University

Angela Carter, 1940-1992, Novelist (2018)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018). Angela Carter, 1940-1992, Novelist. In The Women Who Built Bristol 1184-2018 (93-94). Bristol: Tangent Books

Strange worlds of Angela Carter (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2017, May). Strange worlds of Angela Carter. Paper presented at Receiving/Perceiving Angela Carter, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Art and Angela Carter (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Art and Angela Carter. In . M. Mulvey-Roberts, & F. Robinson (Eds.), Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (36-39). Sansom & Company

Selected loan artwork (2016)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016). Selected loan artwork. In M. Mulvey-Roberts, & F. Robinson (Eds.), Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (40-65). Bristol: Sansom & Company

The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016, June). The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity. Paper presented at Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil, University of Sheffield

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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016, April). Animating the inanimate: Automation and Frankenstein. Paper presented at Animating the Inanimate: Automation and Frankenstein, Watershed, Bristol

Migrations of Catholic Horror and Bleeding Women (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016, March). Migrations of Catholic Horror and Bleeding Women. Paper presented at PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association) national conference, Seattle University, USA

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.

Gothic writing, slavery and radical women in late eighteenth-century Bristol (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015, September). Gothic writing, slavery and radical women in late eighteenth-century Bristol. Presented at Regional History Centre Lecture, M Shed Bristol

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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015, July). Migrating medical horror. Paper presented at Gothic Migrations 12th International Gothic Association, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

The Gothicisation of World War I (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014, December). The Gothicisation of World War I. Paper presented at Intellectuals and the Great War, University of Ghent, Belgium

Gothic excesses: Pride and Prejudice and zombies (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014, October). Gothic excesses: Pride and Prejudice and zombies. Paper presented at All that Gothic: Excess and Exuberance, University of Lodz, Poland

Slavery, emancipation and mixed race (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2013, December). Slavery, emancipation and mixed race. Paper presented at Dark Latitudes: Mapping Gothic Sites and Mediums, University of San Jose, Costa Rica

Zombies, Pride and Prejudice and vampires: Brand and genre (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2013, June). Zombies, Pride and Prejudice and vampires: Brand and genre. Paper presented at Pride and Prejudice: Celebrating 200 Years, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

A paroxysm of abnormal excitement: Dracula and the castrating doctors (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2012, November). A paroxysm of abnormal excitement: Dracula and the castrating doctors. Paper presented at Bram Stoker Birthday Symposium, University of Hull

This paper will consider Dracula as a medical novel with particular reference to the ways in which Stoker made use of surgical details. It will focus upon how the treatment of vampirism may be paralleled with various surgical techniques, particularly... Read More about A paroxysm of abnormal excitement: Dracula and the castrating doctors.

Bristol: Gothic City (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2012, May). Bristol: Gothic City. Presented at Writing the West conference, M Shed, Bristol

Hand-ling patchwork girl (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2011, November). Hand-ling patchwork girl. Paper presented at Contemporary Women’s Gothic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association conference, University of Brighton

Celebrating women’s writing (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2010, June). Celebrating women’s writing. Presented at Celebrating Women’s Writing, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

Brides of Frankenstein: From text to flesh (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2010, March). Brides of Frankenstein: From text to flesh. Paper presented at The Monster in Art and its Different Manifestations, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Madness: 300 years of madness (2008)
Digital Artefact
(2008). Madness: 300 years of madness. [Microfilm]

MADNESS: 300 YEARS OF MADNESS Rare Printed Works on the History of Psychiatry Part 1: Sources from the Hunter Collection, Cambridge University Library This project is based on the renowned Hunter Collection at Cambridge University Library. Acquire... Read More about Madness: 300 years of madness.

A spook ride on film: Carpenter and the Gothic (2005)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2005). A spook ride on film: Carpenter and the Gothic. In The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror (78-90). London: Wallflower Press

Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2004)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2004). Rosina Bulwer Lytton. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (993-995)

Bloody women (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2004, February). Bloody women. Presented at Spaces of the Mind, Centre for Romanticism and Enlightenment Studies, University of Glasgow

“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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2003, November). “His prints we read”: The masonic narratives of punishment and Jacobitism in William Hogarth and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The cask of amontillado”. Paper presented at Fifth Annual International Conference, Freemasonry in Music and Literature, Canonbury Masonic Research Centre

Gothic fiction rare printed works from the Sadleir-Black collection (2002)
Digital Artefact
(2002). Gothic fiction rare printed works from the Sadleir-Black collection. [Microfilm]

GOTHIC FICTION: Rare Printed Works from the Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia Part 1: Matthew Lewis and Gothic Horror - Beckford to Lewis Part 2: Matthew Lewis and Gothic Horror - MacKenzi... Read More about Gothic fiction rare printed works from the Sadleir-Black collection.

Tribute to Tracy Hansen (2002)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2002). Tribute to Tracy Hansen. The Wing of Friendship, 4

Sex and sexuality, 1640-1490 literary, medical and sociological perspectives (2001)
Digital Artefact
Sex and sexuality, 1640-1490 literary, medical and sociological perspectives. [Microfilm]

SEX & SEXUALITY, 1640-1940 Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives Part 1: Sources from the Bodleian Library- Oxford and theWellcome Institute for the History of Medicine- London EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION BY DR MARIE MULVEY-ROBERTS, SCHO... Read More about Sex and sexuality, 1640-1490 literary, medical and sociological perspectives.

Edward Bulwer Lytton (2001)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2001). Edward Bulwer Lytton. In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide (83-89). Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press

Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley (2001)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2001). Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley. In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, (389-99). Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press

The corpse in the corpus: Frankenstein, rewriting Mary Wollstonecraft and the abject (2000)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2000). The corpse in the corpus: Frankenstein, rewriting Mary Wollstonecraft and the abject. In Mary Shelley: Fictions from Frankenstein to Falkner (197-211). London: Palgrave Macmillan

An extraordinary wealth of new work by established and young scholars on both sides of the Atlantic emerged during Mary Shelley's recent bicentenary year. Michael Eberle-Sinatra has made a representative selection, focusing on current issues and theo... Read More about The corpse in the corpus: Frankenstein, rewriting Mary Wollstonecraft and the abject.

Introduction (1999)
Journal Article
Cook, J. R., Spicer, A., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1999). Introduction. Women's Writing, 6(3), 279-283

The Handbook to Gothic Literature (1998)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Ed.). (1998). The Handbook to Gothic Literature. London: Macmillan

What do we mean by the term 'Gothic'? How does it differ from such classifications as 'terror' and 'horror' and where do its parameters lie? In an attempt to define such an elusive term, this A-Z unearths the terminologies associated with Gothic thro... Read More about The Handbook to Gothic Literature.

Vampirism and menstruation (1997)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1997, August). Vampirism and menstruation. Paper presented at Dracula ‘97: A Centennial Celebration, Los Angeles, USA

Mothering the unthinkable: The hideous progeny of inter-textuality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1996)
Conference Proceeding
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1996). Mothering the unthinkable: The hideous progeny of inter-textuality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In Transactions of the IX International Congress on the Enlightenment (1459-62)

Plenary sessions. The problem of peace in the 18th century ; East-West relations ; The modern relevance of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment as epoch and programme. Unity and diversity ; Germany ; Poland ; The Romance countries ; Russia and the Ukrai... Read More about Mothering the unthinkable: The hideous progeny of inter-textuality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Medicine and Literature (1996)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1996). Medicine and Literature. In Reader's Guide to Literature in English (477-478). London: Fitzroy Dearborn

Front Matter (1996)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1996). Front Matter. In R. Porter, & M. Mulvey Roberts (Eds.), Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century (ix-xv). Houndmills and London: Macmillan Press

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.

Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob. (1995)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1995). Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob. British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, 18(1), 83-84. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.1995.tb00183.x

Margaret Jacob, Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) and Christopher McIntosh, The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europ... Read More about Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob..

Perspectives on the History of British Feminism (1994)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M., & Mizuta, T. (Eds.). (1994). Perspectives on the History of British Feminism. London and Bristol: Routledge/Thoemmes

Following on from Sources of British Feminism, the present six volumes contain primary source material on radicalism, marriage, motherhood, sexuality and militancy. Table of Contents Vol I: The Educators: The Fight for Female Education Vol II: The... Read More about Perspectives on the History of British Feminism.

Sources of British Feminism (1993)
Book
Mizuta, T., & Mulvey Roberts, M. (Eds.). (1993). Sources of British Feminism. Bristol and London: Thoemmes/ Routledge

Some of the key primary source texts central to the history of British feminism are now being made available in the six volumes of Sources of British Feminism. These anthologies are intended to signal a tribute to the collective and collaborative eff... Read More about Sources of British Feminism.

The Dracula weekend (1990)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1990). The Dracula weekend. The Vampire Magazine, 5-8

The vampire plague (1990)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1990). The vampire plague. The Blood is the Life, V, 6-9

Muriel spark (1989)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1989). Muriel spark. In Dictionary of British Women Writers (634-637). London: Routledge

Mary Shelley and Rosicrucian Romanticism (1989)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1989, March). Mary Shelley and Rosicrucian Romanticism. Paper presented at Reviewing Romanticism, King Alfred's College, Winchester

Burns and the masonic enlightenment (1987)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1987). Burns and the masonic enlightenment. In Aberdeen and the Enlightenment. Aberdeen University Press

Science and the supernatural in Godwin's St Leon (1987)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1987, July). Science and the supernatural in Godwin's St Leon. Paper presented at VII International Congress on Enlightenment,, Budapest, Hungary

Burns and freemasonry (1986)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1986, August). Burns and freemasonry. Paper presented at Aberdeen and the Enlightenment, University of Aberdeen