Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915
Rereading the fin de siècle
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 redis…
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Weitere Autoren: Orrells, Daniel (Hrsg.) / Vuohelainen, Minna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-2436-4
- EAN: 9781526124364
- Produktnummer: 32341476
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'024 KB
- Abbildungen: 6 black & white illustrations
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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
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