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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Caroline Norton’s forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naïve young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season.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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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