Frankenstein Frontispiece, the Missing Phallus and the Pornographer: The Alchemy of Conceiving Monstrosities
(2023)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2023). Frankenstein Frontispiece, the Missing Phallus and the Pornographer: The Alchemy of Conceiving Monstrosities. In Monstrosity, Identify and Music: Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Videogames (9-26). New York, London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501380075.0008
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Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination (2022)
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Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022). Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination. In Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
Kaleidoscopes, stereoscopes and desire machines: Revolutions in vision in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman (2022)
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Sivyer, C. (2022). Kaleidoscopes, stereoscopes and desire machines: Revolutions in vision in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman. In C. Crofts, & . M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (153-171). Bloomsbury Publishing
Angela Carter’s questioning of ‘age-appropriate’ appearance and behaviour in wise children (2022)
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Brennan, Z. (2022). Angela Carter’s questioning of ‘age-appropriate’ appearance and behaviour in wise children. In C. Crofts, & M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics. Bloomsbury
Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose (2021)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021). Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose. In C. Bloom (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic (97-112). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_6Edward 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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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019). Angela Carter's curious rooms. In The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities (1-16). Manchester: Manchester University Press
Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult (2019)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019). Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult. In M. Mulvey-Roberts (Ed.), The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities (145-165). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526136787.00014Angela 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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(2018). Global reanimations of Frankenstein. In C. M. Davison, & M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Global Frankenstein (1-17). New York: Palgrave MacmillanConsisting 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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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018). Female radicals in Bristol: The three Marys and Mary Wollstonecraft's "The Cave of Fancy". In L. Duckling, S. Read, F. Roberts, & C. D. Williams (Eds.), Exploring the Lives of Women 1558-1837 (57-66). Pen & Sword Books
Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein (2018)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018). Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein. In C. M. Davison, & M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Global Frankenstein (53-71). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78142-6_4For 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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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018). Angela Carter, 1940-1992, Novelist. In The Women Who Built Bristol 1184-2018 (93-94). Bristol: Tangent Books
Art and Angela Carter (2016)
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(2016). Art and Angela Carter. In . M. Mulvey-Roberts, & F. Robinson (Eds.), Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (36-39). Sansom & Company
Selected loan artwork (2016)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016). Selected loan artwork. In M. Mulvey-Roberts, & F. Robinson (Eds.), Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (40-65). Bristol: Sansom & Company
The female Gothic body (2016)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016). The female Gothic body. In S. Zlosnik, & A. Horner (Eds.), Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University PressThis analysis explores the evolution of the female Gothic body through literature, history and myth in relation to the Gothic tradition.
Angela Carter's 'Bristol Trilogy': A gothic perspective on Bristol's 1960s counterculture (2015)
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Brennan, Z. (2015). Angela Carter's 'Bristol Trilogy': A gothic perspective on Bristol's 1960s counterculture. In M. Mulvey-Roberts (Ed.), Literary Bristol: Writers and the City (162-182). Bristol: Redcliffe Press
Bristol's romantic poets: Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015)
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Jarvis, R. (2015). Bristol's romantic poets: Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In M. Mulvey-Roberts (Ed.), Literary Bristol: Writers and the City (59-82). Bristol: Redcliffe Press
Gothic Bristol: City of darkness and light (2015)
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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 PressBecause 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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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015). Introduction: Literary Bristol. In M. Mulvey-Roberts (Ed.), Literary Bristol: Writers and the City (7-28). Bristol: Redcliffe PressThis 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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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 PublishingThis 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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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2012). Edward Bulwer Lytton. In W. Hughes, A. Smith, & D. Punter (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of the Gothic. Oxford: Blackwell