Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915
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Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915

Rereading the fin de siècle

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eBook - ePub

Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915

Rereading the fin de siècle

About this book

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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Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781526124340
eBook ISBN
9781526124364

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction: Victoria Margree, Daniel Orrells and Minna Vuohelainen
  10. Part I: Richard Marsh and topical discourses of crime
  11. Part II: Richard Marsh, masculinity and money
  12. Part III: Richard Marsh and the imperial Gothic
  13. Part IV: Richard Marsh and object relations
  14. Index

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