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The female Gothic body (2016)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016). The female Gothic body. In S. Zlosnik, & A. Horner (Eds.), Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016). Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015). Gothic Bristol: City of darkness and light. In M. Mulvey-Roberts (Ed.), Literary Bristol: Writers and the City (29-58). Bristol: Redcliffe Press

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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015). Introduction: Literary Bristol. In M. Mulvey-Roberts (Ed.), Literary Bristol: Writers and the City (7-28). Bristol: Redcliffe Press

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

British Poets and Secret Societies (2014)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014). British Poets and Secret Societies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge Revivals

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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014). The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson. In M. Purves (Ed.), Women and Gothic (81-96). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2012). Edward Bulwer Lytton. In W. Hughes, A. Smith, & D. Punter (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of the Gothic. Oxford: Blackwell

Poison (2012)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2012). Poison. In A. Smith, D. Punter, & W. Hughes (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of the Gothic. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Secret societies (2012)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2012). Secret societies. In W. Hughes, D. Punter, & A. Smith (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of the Gothic. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Mary Shelley (2011)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2011). Mary Shelley. In A. Maunder (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism (400-404). New York, USA: Facts on File

From Bluebeard's bloody chamber to demonic stigmatic (2009)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2009). From Bluebeard's bloody chamber to demonic stigmatic. In D. Wallace, & A. Smith (Eds.), The Female Gothic: New Directions (98-114). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Menstrual misogyny and taboo: The medusa, vampire and the female stigmatic (2005)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2005). Menstrual misogyny and taboo: The medusa, vampire and the female stigmatic. In A. Shail, & G. Howie (Eds.), Menstruation: A Cultural History (149-161). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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
(2005). M. Mulvey-Roberts (Ed.), Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Cheveley: A man of honour. Pickering and Chatto

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
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2004). Writing for revenge: The battle of the books of Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton. In A. C. Christensen (Ed.), The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary Reflections (159-174). Delaware: Delaware University Press

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