‘Widders are ’ceptions to ev’ry rule’: The Widow in Mid-Victorian Fiction
04/07/2012, “North West Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar”, Manchester City Library
Read More »04/07/2012, “North West Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar”, Manchester City Library
Read More »Joel Gwynne and Nadine Muller (eds.), Postfeminism and Hollywood Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Read More »This book chapter discusses the relationship between pornography and feminist politics in two neb-victorian novels: Sarah Waters’s *Fingersmith* (2002) and Belinda Starling’s *The Journal of Dora Damage* (2006).
Read More »This article investigates the possible reasons for and significance of British twenty-first century fiction’s return to periods in which the field of mental health came into being and developed into a splintered discipline, contested by neurologists, alienists, pathologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. Through an analysis of Sebastian Faulks’ Human Traces (2005), Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) and Maggie O’Farrell’s The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006), this article aims to situate twenty-first century fiction within an interdisciplinary critical framework of questions: if, as Freud feared in his Studies on Hysteria (1895), psychoanalytic case histories can “read like short stories” (231), can novels in turn read like case histories of the societies and cultures of which they are products? If texts such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1848), Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White (1860), or Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) were able to “put the many concerns Victorians had about insanity into dramatic perspective” (Appignanesi 87), then do their twenty-first century counterparts perform the same role with regards to issues surrounding women as practitioners and patients within the field of mental health in Britain at the turn of the new millennium?
Read More »Muller, Nadine, “The (Feminist) Politics of Sex Work in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White“, Sexuality in Contemporary Literature, ed. by Joel Gwynne and Angelia Poon (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2012), pp.39-60 Below you can find the introduction to this chapter as well as access to the Foreword (Feona Attwood) and the introduction […]
Read More »Muller, Nadine and Claire O’Callaghan, “Feminisms”, Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 21 (2013) Below you can find the introduction to this article. For the full advance access .pdf version, please click here. Introduction Within the realm of feminism, 2011 is undoubtedly a year in which the unstable and artificial distinctions that are […]
Read More »An interview with Dr Nathan Ryder about my research, my viva, and life after the Ph.D.
Read More »By Elizabeth Gibney, Times Higher Education (24 May 2012), pp.22-23
Read More »This is an account of my first (and so far only) academic job interview, including how I prepared, and the questions I was asked.
Read More »8-9 September 2011, University of Hull
Read More »5-7 July 2011, Brunel University
Read More »14-15 May 2011, Newcastle University
Read More »My monograph on the history of widows in Britain will be published by Liverpool University Press in 2017. Here you can find a short summary of the contexts and aims of the book. Widders are ‘ceptions to ev’ry rule. Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1837) There are few statements that describe the significance of the figure […]
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Read More »2 October 2010, The Women’s Library, London
Read More »09/04/2010, “Fashioning the Neo-Victorian”, Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Read More »11-12 September 2009, University of Oxford
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