Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915 write by Victoria Margree. This book was released on 2018. Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-siècle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period.
Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915
Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915 write by Victoria Margree. This book was released on 2018-03-31. Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A prolific author within a range of genres including Gothic, crime, humour and romance, Marsh produced stories about shape-shifting monsters, morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life. However, while Marsh’s work appealed to a public greedy for sensationalist fiction, both the cultural elite of the day and twentieth-century literary critics looked askance at his popular middlebrow fiction. In the wake of the recent rediscovery of Marsh’s fiction, this essay collection builds on burgeoning scholarly interest in the author. Marsh emerges here as a fascinating writer who helped shape the genres of popular fiction and whose stories offer surprising responses to issues of criminality, gender and empire in this period of cultural transition.
British Detective Fiction 1891–1901
British Detective Fiction 1891–1901 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Detective Fiction 1891–1901 write by Clare Clarke. This book was released on 2020-07-13. British Detective Fiction 1891–1901 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the Strand Magazine’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his detective. At the time, he firmly believed that Holmes would not be resurrected. This book introduces and showcases a range of Sherlock’s most fascinating successors, exploring the ways in which a huge range of popular magazines and newspapers clamoured to ensnare Sherlock’s bereft fans. The book’s case-study format examines a range of detective series-- created by L.T. Meade; C.L. Pirkis; Arthur Morrison; Fergus Hume; Richard Marsh; Kate and Vernon Hesketh-Prichard— that filled the pages of a variety of periodicals, from plush monthly magazines to cheap newspapers, in the years while Sherlock was dead. Readers will be introduced to an array of detectives—professional and amateur, male and female, old and young; among them a pawn-shop worker, a scientist, a British aristocrat, a ghost-hunter. The study of these series shows that there was life after Sherlock and proves that there is much to learn about the development of the detective genre from the successors to Sherlock Holmes. “In this brilliant, incisive study of late Victorian detective fiction, Clarke emphatically shows us there is life beyond Sherlock Holmes. Rich in contextual detail and with her customary eye for the intricacies of publishing history, Clarke’s wonderfully accessible book brings to the fore a collection of hitherto neglected writers simultaneously made possible but pushed to the margins by Conan Doyle’s most famous creation.” — Andrew Pepper,, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, Queen's University, Belfast Professor Clarke's superb new book, British Detective : The Successors to Sherlock Holmes, is required reading for anyone interested in Victorian crime and detective fiction. Building on her award-winning first monograph, Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, Dr. Clarke further explores the history of serial detective fiction published after the "death" of Conan Doyle's famous detective in 1893. This is a path-breaking book that advances scholarship in the field of late-Victorian detective fiction while at the same time introducing non-specialist readers to a treasure trove of stories that indeed rival the Sherlock Holmes series in their ability to puzzle and entertain the most discerning reader. — Alexis Easley, Professor of English, University of St.Paul, Minnesota
Gothic Britain
Gothic Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gothic Britain write by William Hughes. This book was released on 2018-04-15. Gothic Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Coverage of canonical and less-explored texts in fiction, film and museology. Innovative vision of how Gothic evokes the regions of Great Britain. The first work to consider Gothic and the regional experience at length.
British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930
British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930 write by Victoria Margree. This book was released on 2019-11-08. British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores women’s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage period, arguing that while literary ghosts enabled an interrogation of women’s changing circumstances, ghosts could have both subversive and conservative implications. Haunted house narratives by Charlotte Riddell and Margaret Oliphant become troubled by uncanny reminders of the origins of middle-class wealth in domestic and foreign exploitation. Corpse-like revenants are deployed in Female Gothic tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Edith Nesbit to interrogate masculine aestheticisation of female death. In the culturally-hybrid supernaturalism of Alice Perrin, the ‘Marriage Question’ migrates to colonial India, and psychoanalytically-informed stories by May Sinclair, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt explore just how far gender relations have really progressed in the post-First World War period. Study of the woman’s short story productively problematises literary histories about the “golden age” of the ghost story, and about the transition from Victorianism to modernism.
