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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?.

Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (2022)
Book
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2022). Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

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.

Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination (2022)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022). Fireworks: Angela Carter's incendiary imagination. In Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose (2021)
Book Chapter
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_6

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.

"Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol (2020)
Digital Artefact
Crofts, C. (2020). "Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol. [Live-streamed Video Presentation]

A Tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol’ virtual tour by Angela Carter Society at Being Human Festival of the Humanities, 14 Nov. Join author Dr Stephen Hunt (Angela Carter’s Provincial Bohemia) on a virtual tour of Angela Carter’s 1960s Bristol,... Read More about "Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol.

Angela Carter's curious rooms (2019)
Book Chapter
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

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III) (2019)
Book
Nelson, R., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2019). The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367814694

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).

The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities (2019)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Ed.). (2019). The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

his 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 he... Read More about The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities.

Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult (2019)
Book Chapter
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/10.7765/9781526136787.00014

Angela 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 Frankenstein (2018)
Book
Davison, C. M., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2018). Global Frankenstein. New York: Palgrave

Global reanimations of Frankenstein (2018)
Book Chapter
(2018). Global reanimations of Frankenstein. In C. M. Davison, & M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Global Frankenstein (1-17). New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Consisting 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.

Monstrous dissection and surgery as performance: Gender, race and the Bride of Frankenstein (2018)
Book Chapter
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_4

For 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)
Book Chapter
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)
Book Chapter
(2016). Art and Angela Carter. In . M. Mulvey-Roberts, & F. Robinson (Eds.), Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (36-39). Sansom & Company