Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
Series |
Interventions : rethinking the nineteenth century |
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Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2018) |
Subject |
Marsh, Richard, 1857-1915 -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Marsh, Richard, 1857-1915 fast |
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English fiction -- History -- 19th century
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English fiction -- History -- 20th century
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Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Popular literature
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English fiction
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Margree, Victoria, editor.
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Orrells, Daniel, editor.
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Vuohelainen, Minna, editor.
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ISBN |
9781526124364 |
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152612436X |
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9781526124357 |
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1526124351 |
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9781526136206 |
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1526136201 |
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1526124343 |
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9781526124340 |
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