Outputs (59)

‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2025)
Book Chapter

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.

Frankenstein Frontispiece, the Missing Phallus and the Pornographer: The Alchemy of Conceiving Monstrosities (2023)
Book Chapter

Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (2023)
Book Chapter

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.

How Lord Alfred Douglas introduced a new member to the Oscar Wilde Society in 2023 (2023)
Journal Article

A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton’s Love in “The World" (2023)
Book

Caroline Norton’s forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naïve young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season.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

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.

Letter to Monica Sjöö about her "God Giving Birth" painting (2022)
Other

Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

A glitch in The Matrix and other interruptions in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Angela Carter, Engineering Desire and The Matrix (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution