[Research Seminar] The Widow: A Literary & Cultural History (1837-1979)
Research Seminar, 5 March 2014, Department of English, Durham University
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[Commentary] Expensive, Nervous, Sexual: “I’m a Widow Worth Having” (1861)
This second post on widows in Victorian comic songs considers a piece which renders its widow financially, medically, socially, and sexually undesirable.
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[Commentary] Charming, Crafty, Complicated: Widows in Victorian Comic Songs
The first in a series of posts on deviant widows in popular comic songs from the 1840s, 50s and 60s.
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Curriculum Vitae
Here you can find a PDF copy of my CV which I update regularly. You can find more details about most of my publications, papers, teaching, and other activities on this website.
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[Publication] Women & Belief, 1852-1928 (A Routledge Major Works Anthology)
Women and Belief is a six-volume collection of primary materials covering a wide range of opinions about women, their self-identity, and the combination of their spiritual and political beliefs.
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[Publication] Dead Husbands & Deviant Women
Over the past decade, the detective widow has become a well-established character in the little-explored subgenre of neo–Victorian crime fiction. In Tasha Alexander’s Lady Emily series, the author argues, the detective widow investigates the gendered characteristics and complexities of Victorian widowhood while detecting the artistic crimes associated with historical fiction’s imitations and adaptations of the past.
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‘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
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[Publication] Selling Sugar: The (Feminist) Politics of Sex Work in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White
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 […]
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[Monograph] The Widow: A Literary & Cultural History (1837-1979)
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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Dead Husbands & Dirty Secrets: Fashioning the Neo-Victorian Widow
09/04/2010, “Fashioning the Neo-Victorian”, Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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