All Outputs (2)

Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, March). Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?. Presented at Angela Carter: Radical Prescience, University of Chichester

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?.

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.