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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

Selected loan artwork (2016)
Book Chapter
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)
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.

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

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

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

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

Madness: 300 years of madness (2008)
Digital Artefact
(2008). Madness: 300 years of madness. [Microfilm]

MADNESS: 300 YEARS OF MADNESS Rare Printed Works on the History of Psychiatry Part 1: Sources from the Hunter Collection, Cambridge University Library This project is based on the renowned Hunter Collection at Cambridge University Library. Acquire... Read More about Madness: 300 years of madness.

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.

A spook ride on film: Carpenter and the Gothic (2005)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2005). A spook ride on film: Carpenter and the Gothic. In The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror (78-90). London: Wallflower Press

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.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2004)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2004). Rosina Bulwer Lytton. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (993-995)

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.

Gothic fiction rare printed works from the Sadleir-Black collection (2002)
Digital Artefact
(2002). Gothic fiction rare printed works from the Sadleir-Black collection. [Microfilm]

GOTHIC FICTION: Rare Printed Works from the Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia Part 1: Matthew Lewis and Gothic Horror - Beckford to Lewis Part 2: Matthew Lewis and Gothic Horror - MacKenzi... Read More about Gothic fiction rare printed works from the Sadleir-Black collection.

Tribute to Tracy Hansen (2002)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2002). Tribute to Tracy Hansen. The Wing of Friendship, 4

Sex and sexuality, 1640-1490 literary, medical and sociological perspectives (2001)
Digital Artefact
Sex and sexuality, 1640-1490 literary, medical and sociological perspectives. [Microfilm]

SEX & SEXUALITY, 1640-1940 Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives Part 1: Sources from the Bodleian Library- Oxford and theWellcome Institute for the History of Medicine- London EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION BY DR MARIE MULVEY-ROBERTS, SCHO... Read More about Sex and sexuality, 1640-1490 literary, medical and sociological perspectives.

Edward Bulwer Lytton (2001)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2001). Edward Bulwer Lytton. In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide (83-89). Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press

Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley (2001)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2001). Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley. In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, (389-99). Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press

The corpse in the corpus: Frankenstein, rewriting Mary Wollstonecraft and the abject (2000)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2000). The corpse in the corpus: Frankenstein, rewriting Mary Wollstonecraft and the abject. In Mary Shelley: Fictions from Frankenstein to Falkner (197-211). London: Palgrave Macmillan

An extraordinary wealth of new work by established and young scholars on both sides of the Atlantic emerged during Mary Shelley's recent bicentenary year. Michael Eberle-Sinatra has made a representative selection, focusing on current issues and theo... Read More about The corpse in the corpus: Frankenstein, rewriting Mary Wollstonecraft and the abject.

Introduction (1999)
Journal Article
Cook, J. R., Spicer, A., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1999). Introduction. Women's Writing, 6(3), 279-283

The Handbook to Gothic Literature (1998)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Ed.). (1998). The Handbook to Gothic Literature. London: Macmillan

What do we mean by the term 'Gothic'? How does it differ from such classifications as 'terror' and 'horror' and where do its parameters lie? In an attempt to define such an elusive term, this A-Z unearths the terminologies associated with Gothic thro... Read More about The Handbook to Gothic Literature.

Mothering the unthinkable: The hideous progeny of inter-textuality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1996)
Conference Proceeding
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1996). Mothering the unthinkable: The hideous progeny of inter-textuality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In Transactions of the IX International Congress on the Enlightenment (1459-62)

Plenary sessions. The problem of peace in the 18th century ; East-West relations ; The modern relevance of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment as epoch and programme. Unity and diversity ; Germany ; Poland ; The Romance countries ; Russia and the Ukrai... Read More about Mothering the unthinkable: The hideous progeny of inter-textuality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Medicine and Literature (1996)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1996). Medicine and Literature. In Reader's Guide to Literature in English (477-478). London: Fitzroy Dearborn

Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob. (1995)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1995). Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob. British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, 18(1), 83-84. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.1995.tb00183.x

Margaret Jacob, Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) and Christopher McIntosh, The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europ... Read More about Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. By Margaret Jacob..

Perspectives on the History of British Feminism (1994)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M., & Mizuta, T. (Eds.). (1994). Perspectives on the History of British Feminism. London and Bristol: Routledge/Thoemmes

Following on from Sources of British Feminism, the present six volumes contain primary source material on radicalism, marriage, motherhood, sexuality and militancy. Table of Contents Vol I: The Educators: The Fight for Female Education Vol II: The... Read More about Perspectives on the History of British Feminism.

Sources of British Feminism (1993)
Book
Mizuta, T., & Mulvey Roberts, M. (Eds.). (1993). Sources of British Feminism. Bristol and London: Thoemmes/ Routledge

Some of the key primary source texts central to the history of British feminism are now being made available in the six volumes of Sources of British Feminism. These anthologies are intended to signal a tribute to the collective and collaborative eff... Read More about Sources of British Feminism.

The Dracula weekend (1990)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1990). The Dracula weekend. The Vampire Magazine, 5-8

The vampire plague (1990)
Journal Article
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1990). The vampire plague. The Blood is the Life, V, 6-9

Muriel spark (1989)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1989). Muriel spark. In Dictionary of British Women Writers (634-637). London: Routledge

Burns and the masonic enlightenment (1987)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1987). Burns and the masonic enlightenment. In Aberdeen and the Enlightenment. Aberdeen University Press