‘Maniacal perversions’, Fury and Violence: The Monstrous Feminine and the Critical Age in Victorian Literature and Culture

Guest seminar by Dr Jessica Cox, Brunel University of London.

A woman pours a liquid into an old drinking glass. Old Painting.

The Love Potion. Photo: Evelyn De Morgan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of a woman with long blond hair and dark clothes.
Jessica Cox. Photo: Brunel University of London.

Join Dr Jessica Cox as she discusses her current research on (peri-)menopause in the nineteenth century.

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Jessica Cox is Reader in English Literature at Brunel University London. Her research interests include maternal histories, Victorian sensation fiction (particularly the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins), the Brontës, the Victorian popular press, neo-Victorian literature and culture, and feminism and popular culture. Her most recent book, Confinement (The History Press, 2023), examines the history of maternal bodies in nineteenth-century Britain.

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