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...
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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...
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“The Story Seems of an Almost Unbelievable Romanticism”: Indu OhriUniversity of Virginia [Hercule Poirot] had finished his magnum opus, an analysis of great writers of detective fiction. He had dared to speak scathingly of Edgar Allan Poe, he had complained of the...
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Jessica Cox Kimberly Cox is Assistant Professor at Chadron State College where she teaches courses in British literature, composition, and Gender Studies. Her book, Touch, Sexuality, and Skin in British Literature, 1740–1900, is under contract with Routledge, and her...
