by Speak Digital | Jan 5, 2022 | Current, Reviews
Sensation Drama Caroline Radcliffe...
by Speak Digital | Apr 16, 2021 | Articles
Kathryne Ford The Australian National University Wilkie Collins—revitalised in Dan Simmons’s 2009 neo-Victorian novel Drood—positions narrative dexterity as the key component of power: “Never underestimate, Dear Reader, the resourcefulness of a novelist in an...
by Speak Digital | Apr 16, 2021 | Articles
Gail Carriger’s Neo-Victorian ‘Parasol Protectorate’ Series Melissa Purdue Minnesota State University, Mankato In nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, hybrid animal-human figures, such as werewolves, vampires and other supernatural creatures, are often expressions of...
by Speak Digital | Apr 16, 2021 | Articles
Beth Sherman CUNY Graduate Center To many people, Wilkie Collins will always be best-known for inventing the detective novel. The Moonstone’s (1868) Sergeant Cuff, with his quirky yet ingratiating manner and penchant for gardening, helped lay the groundwork for...
by Speak Digital | Apr 16, 2021 | Articles
Kimberly Cox Chadron State College Despite its overt indebtedness to Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone (1868), Philip Pullman’s neo-sensation novel, The Ruby in the Smoke (1985), has received little critical attention in neo-Victorian studies in reference to Collins’s...
