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‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2024)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C., & Mulvey Roberts, M. ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization. In Angela Carter's futures: Representations, adaptations and legacies. Bloomsbury. Manuscript submitted for publication

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.

Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (2023)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2023). Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve. In M. Costantini, C. Capancioni, & M. Mattoscio (Eds.), Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries - Genders/Genres/Genera (237-56). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40795-6

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.

A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton’s Love in “The World" (2023)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M., & Nelson, R. (Eds.). (2023). A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton’s Love in “The World". London and New York: Anthem Press

Caroline Norton’s forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naïve young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season.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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2023). Ghosts at an exhibition: From image to text in Angela Carter’s strange worlds. Gramarye, 69-82

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.

Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, September). Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition

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, Engineering Desire and The Matrix (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, June). Angela Carter, Engineering Desire and The Matrix. Paper presented at Nomadic texts and subjectivities: Metamorphic itineraries in/of Angela Carter’s Work, University of Angers, France

Paula Rego's witches (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, June). Paula Rego's witches. Paper presented at Crones, Crime and the Gothic, Falmouth University

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)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, July). The dark economies of sexual myths. Presented at Dark Economies: Anxious futures, Fearful Pasts, Falmouth University

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.

Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, February). Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution. Paper presented at Revolutionary Histories – Caribbean Literature, Slavery and the Gothic, Aarhus University, Denmark

Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, October). Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place. Presented at The Gothic, the Abject and the Supernatural: 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

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)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, June). Poison and pens: Bulwer Lytton’s Lucretia in fiction and real life. Paper presented at Captivating Criminality, Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions International Crime Fiction Association, University of Pescara, Italy

Frankenstein and hidden sexualities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018, November). Frankenstein and hidden sexualities. Presented at 1818-2018: The Silent Revolution: Of Fears, Follies and the Feminine,, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon