Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915 (eBook, ePUB)

Rereading the fin de siècle
Redaktion: Margree, Victoria; Vuohelainen, Minna; Orrells, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526124364
• Artikelnr.: 57471687

Autorenporträt

Victoria Margree is Principal Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Brighton Daniel Orrells is Reader in Ancient Literature and Its Reception at King's College London Minna Vuohelainen is Lecturer in English at City, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

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 money 5 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 Pedlingham 10
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