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‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2024)
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Caroline Norton’s forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naïve young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season.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.

Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was "canonised" as the White Witch of English Literature following her death, which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This paper wi... Read More about Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?.

Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination (2022)
Book Chapter

Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (2022)
Book

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into Carter's pyrotechnic creativity and pays tribute to her inc... Read More about Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries.

The dark economies of sexual myths (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose (2021)
Book Chapter

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.

A plaque for the writer Angela Carter (1940-1992) (2020)
Digital Artefact

Merlin, medievalism and Middle English: The untranslateable worlds of Dr Hoffman (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Angela Carter's curious rooms (2019)
Book Chapter

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III) (2019)
Book

This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period July 1828-Deember 1837. The collection also includes an introduction and five commentaries by the editor, contextualising and embeddin... Read More about The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III).

Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

School report: Our visit to Angela Carter’s old school (2019)
Digital Artefact

The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities (2019)
Book

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Carter scholars with some emerging academics, in a new approach to h... Read More about The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities.