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H. G. Wells and J. B. Pinker: Previously Unpublished Correspondence Concerning Conrad

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2019)
H. G. Wells and J. B. Pinker: Previously Unpublished Correspondence Concerning Conrad. Conradian, 44(2), 37-58
No abstract available.

Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2019)
Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire. L'Epoque Conradienne, 41,
Professor Linda Dryden Joseph Conrad was a writer who crossed national boundaries both in his personal life and in his writing, particularly in his early Malay tales and in He...

The Inheritors, H. G. Wells and Science Fiction: The Dimensions of the Future

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2017)
The Inheritors, H. G. Wells and Science Fiction: The Dimensions of the Future. Conradiana, 49(2/3), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1353/cnd.2017.0013
In 1901 H.G. Wells published Anticipations, a provocative speculation on the future course of technology and on how social and political systems might evolve. In the same year...

'Romance-ing Treasure Island: Conrad and Ford's Debt to Robert Louis Stevenson

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2013)
'Romance-ing Treasure Island: Conrad and Ford's Debt to Robert Louis Stevenson. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 10,

The Gothic: Detection and Science Fiction.

Book
Dryden, L. (2012)
The Gothic: Detection and Science Fiction. In C. McCracken-Flesher (Ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, 96-103. The Modern Languages Association
An essay on how Stevenson fits into the genre of detection and science fiction literature.

Conrad, Ford, Wells and Modernism

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2012)
Conrad, Ford, Wells and Modernism. L'Epoque Conradienne,
This article develops on my previous work on Conrad and Wells, but brings Ford more firmly into the frame. The argument centres on how Conrad and Ford discussed their efforts ...

Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad.

Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2011)
Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives, 86-97. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006
This paper offers a comparative study of some of the colonial fictions of Stevenson and Conrad. It takes a postcolonial position, arguing that both Stevenson and Conrad were m...

Performing Malaya.

Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2009)
Performing Malaya. In K. Baxter, & R. Hand (Eds.), Joseph Conrad and the performing Arts (11-28). Ashgate Publishing
This is an essay in a collection called Conrad and Performance edited by Katherine Baxter and Richard Hand. It discusses how Conrad's characters in his Malay novels perform as...

Stevenson and popular culture.

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2009)
Stevenson and popular culture. NJES : Nordic journal of English studies. 9.3, 11-24. ISSN 1654-6970

Conrad and his readers.

Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2009)
Conrad and his readers. In A. H. Simmons (Ed.), Joseph Conrad in context (221-228). Cambridge University Press
This is an essay in a special collection called Conrad in Context. The essay discusses Conrad in the context of late-nineteenth-century reading practices.