Essays on Culture and Literature
‘Spirits before my face’, in Caribbean Despatches: Stories of Change and Movement, ed. Jane Bryce, London: Macmillan Palgrave, 2006
‘Angels & Engines: Apocalypse and its Aftermath from George W Bush to Philip Pullman’, TLS Aug. 19 and 26 2005; different version published as ‘The Culture of Apocalypse’, Raritan, Fall 2005 VOl XXV, No. 2.
‘Knowing your Daemons: Metamorphosis from The Arabian Nights to Philip Pullman’, in Children’s Literature Global and Local: Social and Aesthetic Perspectives, eds. Emer O’Sullivan, Kimberley Reynolds, Rolf Romoren (Oslo, 2005)
‘Out of the Hell-Broth on to the Pillow: The Metamorphosis of a Frog’, in Kiss the Frog: The Art of Transformation exh. cat., Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo 28 May- 18 Sept 2005.
‘Passionate Cruces: The Art of Dorothy Cross’ in Dorothy Cross, exhibition catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, 2005 (Milan; Charta, 2005)
‘Wolf-Girl, Soul-Bird: The Mortal Art of Kiki Smith’, in Kiki Smith, exhibition catalogue for retrospective, Minneapolis – San Francisco, 2005- .
‘Self-Portrait in a Rear-View Mirror’ in Only Make Believe Ways of Playing, catalogue of exhibition at Compton Verney, 2004-5.
‘Hieronymus Bosch: The Hay Wain’, El Bosco y la tradicion pictorica de lo fantastico en el Museo del Prado, Madrid, forthcoming, 2006.
‘Invented Plots: The Enchanted Puppets and Fairy Doubles of Henry Fuseli’, appears in the catalogue of Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination Exhibition at Tate Britain, London, February 15-1 May 2006
‘Insubstantial Pageants: spirit visions, soul traces’, in The Blur of the Otherworldly, ed. Mark Alice Durrant, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore, 2005.
‘Airy Spirits and Spitting Images: Adventures with Ectoplasm’, Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus, Vol. 9, Hamburg, 2006
Introduction, Robert Kirk, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. New York: New York Review Books, 2006
The Word Unfleshed: Memory in Cyberspace’, Raritan, Spring 2006 (Talk given to The Friends of the Bodleian Library, June 2005)
Introduction, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lamb’s Tales, London: Penguin Classic, 2006.
‘Old Hags’, in City of Disappearances, ed. Iain Sinclair, 2006.
‘Ghosts and Daemons: The Revival of Myth and Magic’, Presidential Address, Virgil Society, Proceedings, 2006.
Introduction to David Parker, Sirens, Gottingen: Steidl, 2006
Uncollected Essays not reprinted in Signs & Wonders:Essays in Literature and Culture, 2003
‘The Making of Imperial Gothic’ Times Literary Supplement, April 12, 2002 Rose Dugdale Sunday Times Magazine 17 August l974
Introduction to Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, trans. E.J. Richards, New York, l982..
Introduction, Mildred Cable with Francesca French, The Gobi Desert (London, l984)
Introduction to Leonora Carrington, The House of Fear: Notes from Down Below. London, l988; and to Leonora Carrington, The Seventh Horse. London, l988.
‘The Wronged Daughter’, Grand Street VII, 3 (Spring l988), 143-63.
‘Fighting Talk’, in The State of the Language, ed. Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks, London, l989, 100-109.
‘The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy’, in Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament. Edited Alfred Corn, New York, l989, 76-82.
‘Valmont - or the Marquise Unmasked’, in The Don Giovanni Book; Myths of Seduction and Betrayal Ed. Jonathan Miller. London, l990.
The Absent Mother, or, Women against Women in the Old Wives’ Tale’, Inaugural Lecture, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, l991.
‘Laughter and Hope in the Old Wives’ Tale’, La Cenerentola, Programme, Royal Opera House (London, l991),
‘Rich Pickings’, in The Agony and the Ego The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored, ed. Clare Boylan, London, 1993
Cinema and the Realms of Enchantment. Lectures, Seminars and Essays by Marina Warner and others. Ed Duncan Petrie. London, l994.
‘Between the colonist and the creole: family bonds, family boundaries’, in Unbecoming Daughters of Empire. Ed. Anna Rutherford. Sydney and Mundelstrup, Denmark, l993.
Introduction, The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales, ed. Angela Carter London, l993 (A tribute to AC based on the obituary I wrote in the Independent, Feb. 1993)
‘Towards a Democratic Culture’, Charter 88 Paper, l993.
‘Indigo - Mapping the Waters’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines No. 5, Dec. l994.
‘Joan of Arc: A Gender Myth’, in Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth, Ed Jan van Herwaarden. Rotterdam, l994.
‘The Wronged Daughter in Fairytale: “Unnatural Love” in the cult of Saint Dympna and Charles Perrault’s ‘Peau d’ane’, in Saints and Sagas A Symposium, eds. Hans Bekker-Nielsen and Birte Carle Odense, l994
‘The Slipped Retina’, in The Power and the Throne : The Monarchy Debate , ed. Anthony Barnett. London, l994
‘Angela Carter: Bottle Blonde, Double Drag’, in Flesh and the Mirror Essays on the Art of Angela Carter ed. Lorna Sage London, l995
‘Cannibals and Kings’ (On ‘King Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World’)’, in Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views since 1600. Eds. Raymond Corbey and Bert Theunissen. Leiden, 1995.
Introduction, Joan of Arc, ed. Monica Furlong. London, l996
‘The Enchantments of Circe’, Raritan XVII:1 Summer l997
‘“Nonsense Is Rebellion”: The Childsplay of Lewis Carroll’, in Lewis Carroll London: The British Council, l998.
‘“Fee Fie Fo Fum” : The child in the jaws of the story’, in Cannibalism and the Colonial World eds. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen. Cambridge, l998.
‘Why Do Ogres Eat Babies? Monstrous Paternity in Myth and Fairytales’, in Paternity and Fatherhood: Myths and Realities, ed. Lieve Spaas, London, l998.
‘“Hush-a-bye Baby”: Death and Violence in the Lullaby’, Raritan, XVIII:1, Summer l998
‘The Old Wives’ Tale’, in The Classic Fairy Tales, ed. Maria Tatar, New York, l999. ‘Ogres and storytellers: Strategies of resistance in the Italian fairy tale’, The Italianist No. 17, l997.
‘Peroxide Mug-Shot’, LRB, 1 January 1998 (on Myra Hindley)
‘Les femmes et le secret’ in Le Secret: motif et moteur de la litterature. ed. Chantal Zabus. Louvain, l999.
‘Doubting Thomas’, in There Are Kermodians, ed. Anthony Holden and Ursula Owen (London, l999).
‘A Posy for the Misses Pinwell’ , in The Character of the English Countryside (London, 2000)
‘‘The foul witch’ and her ‘freckled whelp’: Circean mutations in the new world’, in The Tempest and its Travels, ed. Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman. London, 2001.
‘The Structure of the Imagination’, in Structure: The Darwin Lectures, l998, ed.Wendy Pullan (Cambridge, 2000)
Introduction, to Iona and Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, New York Review of Books, New York and London 2001
‘Leda and the Swan: The Unbearable Matter of Bliss’, in Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages A Festschrift for Peter Dronke ed. John Marenbon (Leiden, 2000)
‘Le Mythe et la féerie: réécriture et récupération’, Actes du colloque ‘Ou en est-on avec la théorie littéraire?’ (Paris VII, 1999) , eds. Julia Kristeva et Evelyne Grossman , Textuel No. 37. Avril, 2000, pp.85-97
Spirit Visions 1: Figuring the Invisible 2: Materializing the Impalpable Tanner Year Book 22 (1999-2000) Utah, 2001; # 1 reprinted in slightly different form as ‘Spirit Visions: Faces in the Clouds , or, Figuring the Invisible’, Raritan XXI Spring 2002
Introduction to Lorna Sage, Moments of Truth (London, 2001)
‘Riscritture: traduzioni de storie et metamorfosi del mito’, in Le Riscritture del postmoderno Percorsi Angloamericani, eds. Ornella De Zordo e Fiorenzo Fantaccini (Bari, 2002).
‘Painted Devils and Aery Nothings: Metamorphoses and Magic Art’, Proceedings of International Shakespeare Association Conference: Shakespeare and the Mediterranean,Valencia, May 2001.
‘Embodiments of Wisdom?’, review of Wendy Steiner, The Trouble with Beauty, TLS , March 8 2002
‘Castaway on the Ocean of Story: Metamorphic lives, resurrected texts’ – Plenary talk to German Shakespeare Institute, 28 April 2002, published by Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft , Shakespeare Jahrbuch Band 139/2003
‘Magical Mystery Tourism’, review of Simon During, Modern Enchantments The Cultural Power of Secular Magic, Financial Times, 11-12 May 2002
Tribute to W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz, winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 11 April 2002, award ceremony speech.
‘Who’s Sorry Now? : Personal stories, public apologies’. Amnesty Lecture, Oxford 2002, (Oxford University Press, 2004); posted at http://www.opendemocracy.net December 2002.
Preface to Sally Anne Jane Purcell, Collected Poems , edited Peter Jay. London: Anvil Books, 2002
‘Metamorphosis, or Some Thoughts of a Former Bird’, speech at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Dinner in Middle Temple Hall, 19 May 2002, published Brown Book, 2003.
‘The Pillars of Hercules: Plus Ultra , or the limits to “virtù e canoscenza”’, Talk to Dante Society, Oxford, 21 May 2002 ; published Raritan, Spring 2003; ‘Le Colonne di Erocle, plus ultra, o il limite a “virtute e canoscenza” Ovvero oltrepassare il limite’, in Soglie, margini, confine Scriturre in limine, ed, Beatrice Tottosy, Letterature d’Europa e d’America 1- 2004 (Florence, 2004), Italian version (given as lecture in Palermo).
‘Ovid in America’, Raritan XXI Summer 2002.
‘Science at the Séances’, review of Roger Luckhurst, The Invention of Telepathy, London Review of Books Vol 24, no. 19 3 October 2002.
Preface to How We Recovered the Ashes by P.F.Warner (Centenary Publication, MCC, 2003)
Introduction to The World of Myth, British Museum Press, 2003
Introduction, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (London: Folio Society, 2003)
‘Ectoplasm’, in Eggplant Dreaming, ed. Ivor Indyk, Heat 5 New Series, 2003
Introduction, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Vintage Classics, 2004
Introduction, H.G.Wells, The Time Machine. Penguin Classics, 2005
‘Knowing your Daemons: Metamorphosis from The Arabian Nights to Philip Pullman’, in Children’s Literature Global and Local: Social and Aesthetic Perspectives, eds. Emer O’Sullivan, Kimberley Reynolds, Rolf Romoren. Oslo, 2005.
