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‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2024)
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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)
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Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (2023)
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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.

Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination (2022)
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Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose (2021)
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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.

Angela Carter's curious rooms (2019)
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Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult (2019)
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Angela Carter professed her atheism as a rigorous system of disbelief and demythologized religion throughout her work. This included her surrealist art film, The Holy Family Album (1991), and her satire of medieval Catholicism in The Infernal Desire... Read More about Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult.

Global reanimations of Frankenstein (2018)
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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.

Female radicals in Bristol: The three Marys and Mary Wollstonecraft's "The Cave of Fancy" (2018)
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Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein (2018)
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For creating his creature out of dead bodies, Victor Frankenstein makes use of dissection, described by William Lawrence as a ‘dirty source of knowledge’. Victor’s historical antecedents will be related to Mary Shelley’s circle and look ahead to Gunt... Read More about Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein.

Angela Carter, 1940-1992, Novelist (2018)
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Selected loan artwork (2016)
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Art and Angela Carter (2016)
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The female Gothic body (2016)
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This analysis explores the evolution of the female Gothic body through literature, history and myth in relation to the Gothic tradition.

Gothic Bristol: City of darkness and light (2015)
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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)
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This chapter maps the history of literary Bristol from the Middle Ages up to the present day.

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

Edward Bulwer Lytton (2012)
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Secret societies (2012)
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Poison (2012)
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