All Outputs (21)

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.

Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (2016)
Book

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, opera... Read More about Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal.

Gothic Bristol: City of darkness and light (2015)
Book Chapter

Because of its links with Romanticism, Bristol has been referred to as a ‘Romantic City’, yet it could just as easily be identified with the Gothic. Over the centuries, Bristol has been the matrix for a significant number of Gothic innovations, insp... Read More about Gothic Bristol: City of darkness and light.

Introduction: Literary Bristol (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter maps the history of literary Bristol from the Middle Ages up to the present day.

Literary Bristol: Writers and the City (2015)
Book

Literary Bristol tells the story of Bristol through its writers. Bristol has been recognised as a thriving port and commercial and industrial centre, as well as a city of churches, yet insufficient attention has been paid to its literary importance,... Read More about Literary Bristol: Writers and the City.

British Poets and Secret Societies (2014)
Book

This book considers the importance of secret societies to a number of poets, including Christopher Smart, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Rudyard Kipling and considers the effectiveness of poetry as a medium for conveying secret... Read More about British Poets and Secret Societies.

The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter traces how the fragmented female monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is reintegrated within later texts. Her after-lives includes the digital reincarnation of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and that of the surgically modified body o... Read More about The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson.

Mashing-up Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the limits of adaptation (2014)
Journal Article

An analysis of the issues relating to the mash-up genre and adaptation with specific reference to Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Edward Bulwer Lytton (2012)
Book Chapter

Poison (2012)
Book Chapter

Secret societies (2012)
Book Chapter

Mary Shelley (2011)
Book Chapter

Cinematic femme fatales and Weimar Germany in Elizabeth Hand’s The Bride of Frankenstein: Pandora’s Bride (2010)
Book Chapter

Revolutionary mothers and revolting daughters: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, Anna Wheeler and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton (2010)
Book Chapter

From Bluebeard's bloody chamber to demonic stigmatic (2009)
Book Chapter

The collected letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2008)
Book

Menstrual misogyny and taboo: The medusa, vampire and the female stigmatic (2005)
Book Chapter

The author was invited to contribute to this collection which arose from the first academic conference on menstruation in the UK, held at the Medical School, University of Liverpool (2003) at which she gave the keynote lecture.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Cheveley: A man of honour (2005)
Book

This fully annotated edition of the novel, first published in 1839, appears as Volume Five of Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841. General Editor, Harriet Devine Jump.

Writing for revenge: The battle of the books of Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2004)
Book Chapter

This chapter was commissioned for a volume which arose from a conference on Edward Bulwer Lytton, University of London and Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, 2003.

Hogarth on the square: Framing the freemasons (2003)
Journal Article