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Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915 : rereading the fin de siècle /
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 c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Victoria Margree, Daniel Orrells and Minna Vuohelainen; Part I: Richard Marsh and topical discourses of crime; 2 Tall tales and true: Richard Marsh and late Victorian journalism: Nick Freeman; 3 Mrs Musgrave's stain of madness: Marsh and the female offender: Johan Höglund; 4 'The most dangerous thing in England'? Detection, deviance and disability in Richard Marsh's Judith Lee stories: Minna Vuohelainen.
- Part II: Richard Marsh, masculinity and money5 Speculative society, risk and the crime thriller: The Datchet Diamonds: Victoria Margree; 6 'The crowd would have it that I was a hero': populism, New Humour and the male clerk in Marsh's Sam Briggs adventures: Mackenzie Bartlett; Part III: Richard Marsh and the imperial Gothic; 7 'In that Egyptian den': situating The Beetle within the fin-de-siècle fiction of Gothic Egypt: Ailise Bulfin; 8 Automata, plot machinery and the imperial Gothic in Richard Marsh's The Goddess: Neil Hultgren; Part IV: Richard Marsh and object relations.
- 9 'Something was going from me
- the capacity, as it were, to be myself': 'transformational objects' and the Gothic fiction of Richard Marsh: Graeme Pedlingham10 Decadent aesthetics and Richard Marsh's The Mystery of Philip Bennion's Death: Daniel Orrells; 11 'Something on which you may exercise your ingenuity': diamonds and curious collectables in the fin-de-siècle fiction of Richard Marsh: Jessica Allsop; Index.