Outputs (59)

Paula Rego's witches (2022)
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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)
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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.

Transcending gender boundaries: Cross-dressing female jazz musicians from Billy Tipton to Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (1998) (2021)
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Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution (2021)
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Merlin, medievalism and Middle English: The untranslateable worlds of Dr Hoffman (2020)
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Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place (2019)
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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)
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Is there anything new to say about Frankenstein? (2019)
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Frankenstein and hidden sexualities (2018)
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Frankenstein’s monstrous sexualities (2018)
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