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Conrad, Ford, Wells and Modernism

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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 ...

The modern Gothic and literary double: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells.

Dryden, L. (2003)

The modern Gothic and literary double: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells. Palgrave Macmillan

The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles offers refreshing new analyses of the fictions of Gothic duality of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells. Establishing that a modern Gothic litera...

The vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading

Dryden, L. (2006)

The vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading. In D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke (Ed.), Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness, 83-91. Routledge

This book chapter takes a historicist approach to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It relies on theories of historicim and ethnography and cites Clifford Geertx and James Clifford ...

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

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...

H. G. Wells and Joseph Conrad: a literary friendship

Dryden, L. (2006)

H. G. Wells and Joseph Conrad: a literary friendship. In J. S. Partington (Ed.), H. G. Wells's Fin-de-Siècle, 101-112. Peter Lang

This essay was first published in The Wellsian and is collected here in an edited book that contains the best essays on Wells published in recent years.

Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene.

Dryden, L. (2015)

Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene. Palgrave

This is the first sustained examination of of the literary friendship between Conrad and Wells. Drawing upon archival research, diaries, letters and a close analysis of texts,...

Review of Matthew Beaumont. The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siecle.

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Dryden, L. (2013)

Review of Matthew Beaumont. The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siecle. Review of English Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgt050

A review of Matthew Beaumont

Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau

Dryden, L. (2017)

Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau. In R. J. Hill (Ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair: Movement, Memory, and Modernity. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair: Movement, Memory, and Modernity: Routledge

This essay unravels some of the Stevensonian influences and literary allusions that Wells drew upon when conceiving The Island of Doctor Moreau. What emerges is a clear recogn...

Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire

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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...

Performing Malaya.

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...

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Anniversary Events for Rabindranath Tagore

To run a series of events to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore.To heighten awareness of plans to set up a Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies at Edinburgh Napier.

Value: £2,250

The Edinburgh Editions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have never – beyond a small number of individual texts – been published in a scholarly, critical edition. The proposed Research Network, based in Edinburgh, is comp...

Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £20,000

Conrad, Wells and Emergent Modernism

This project investigates the relationship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells in the context of emergent modernism and literary influence. It will result in a monograph of c200 pages, entitled Conr...

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £2,000

City of Literature

To develop apps related to Stevenson and City of Literature

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

An RLS Website

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £34,400

Nehru Centre funding for ScoTs

To raise the profile of Rabindranath Tagore in Scotland. To establish a basis for the launch of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs).

Value: £28,000

ScoTs

To support work on Rabindranath Tagore and to establish a Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs).

Value: £20,000

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The influence of duality and Poe?s notion of the ?Bi-Part Soul? on the genesis of detective fiction in the nineteenth-century

This thesis examines the meaning, origin and influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s...

Dr Stephanie Craighill | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

Century sickness and science in Scottish Gothic literature

Victoria Elliott | Director of Studies: Dr Emily Alder | Second Supervisor: Dr Scott Lyall

H Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: a revisionist approach to Haggard's African fiction

Dr Kate Simpson | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Bashabi Fraser

Representations of feminist and lesbian consciousness and the use of subversive strategies in selected poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873)

Sharon Gordon | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Bashabi Fraser

Marginalisation vs. emancipation: the (new) woman question in Dollie Radford's diary and poetry

Hadeel Azhar | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

The sensational Katherine Cecil Thurston: an investigation into the life and publishing history of a 'New Woman' author

Caroline Copeland | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Alistair Mccleery

Nineteenth-century girls and authorship: adolescent writing, appropriation, and its representation in literature, c 1860-1900

My PhD research focuses on the lived experience and literary representation...

Dr Lois Burke | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Schwan | Second Supervisor: Dr Sarah Artt

Robert Louis Stevenson: The mediation of literary reputation and the advent of modernism

Duncan Milne | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Dr Scott Lyall

Engaging photorealistic VR: an aesthetic process of interaction

Fiona Carroll | Director of Studies: Dr Michael Smyth | Second Supervisor: Prof Linda Dryden

William Hope Hodgson's borderlands: monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siecle

Dr Emily Alder | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Sara Wasson

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Linda Dryden along with Lucille Bluefield has secured charity funding for former student Helena Roots to pursue a PhD within CLAW.

23 February 2016

Linda Dryden along with Lucille Bluefield has secured charity funding for former student Helena Roots to pursue a PhD within CLAW.

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International Workshop with Saskia Schabio from Stuttgart to outline AHRC funding bid.

Jackie Kay Sponsored by CLAW at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017

Charlotte Square, Edinburgh

Robert Louis Stevenson Day: An Evening with Jane Rogers

St. Augustine's Church, Edinburgh

13 November 2017

Sighthill Community Council visit Mehew Collection

Merchiston Campus C83a.

20 February 2018

Conrad Workshop: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.

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