The vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading
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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 ...
H. G. Wells and Joseph Conrad: a literary friendship
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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.
She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact
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Dryden, L. (2006)
She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact. In B. Brabon, & S. Genz (Eds.), Postfeminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture, 154-169. Palgrave Macmillan
This essay discusses how the film Star Trek: First Contact uses the gothic tropes of the femme fatale as expressed in Rider Haggard's iconic text She. This is a collection of ...
'To Boldly Go': Heart of Darkness and popular culture.
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2006)
'To Boldly Go': Heart of Darkness and popular culture. In P. B. Armstrong (Ed.), Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, 500-506. Norton Critical Edition
This is an extract of the paper published first in Conradiana and now included in the Norton anthology of essays accompanying the text of Heart of Darkness. The essays are sel...
City of Dreadful Night: Stevenson's Gothic London.
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Dryden, L. (2005)
City of Dreadful Night: Stevenson's Gothic London. In R. Ambrosini, & R. Dury (Eds.), Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries, 253-264. University of Wisconsin Press
The essay discusses the portrayal of late-nineteenth-century London in Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, suggesting that the city is as much of a character in...
Editorial-Journal of Stevenson Studies Issue 3
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Dryden, L. & Watson, R. (2005)
Editorial-Journal of Stevenson Studies Issue 3
This is an editorial for issue 3 of the Journal of Stevenson Studies for which Linda Dryden is co-General Editor
H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad: a literary friendship.
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2005)
H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad: a literary friendship. The Wellsian : journal of the H.G. Wells Society. 28, 2-13. ISSN 0263-1776
The modern Gothic and literary double: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells.
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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 Hardys and William Mathie Parker.
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2003)
The Hardys and William Mathie Parker. The bibliotheck : a journal of bibliographical notes and queries mainly of Scottish interest. 1, 25-39. ISSN 0006-193X
“To Boldly Go”: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and popular culture.
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2002)
“To Boldly Go”: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and popular culture. Conradiana. 34, 70-149. ISSN 0010-6356
Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) is a text that has consistently resisted analytic closure. That is to say that its relevance to the twentieth century (and now the twenty-fir...