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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...
Dryden, L. (in press). H. G. Wells and J. B. Pinker: Previously Unpublished Correspondence Concerning Conrad. Conradian,
No abstract available.
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,...
Royal Society of Edinburgh
£20000
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...
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
£2000
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...
To support work on Rabindranath Tagore and to establish a Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs).
Dryden, L., & Watson, R. (2014). Journal of Stevenson Studies. Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies
Issue 11 of the Journal of Stevenson Studies, edited by Linda Dryden and Rory Watson, has now been published.
Dryden, L. (2013). 'Romance-ing Treasure Island: Conrad and Ford's Debt to Robert Louis Stevenson. Journal of Stevenson Studies. 10ISSN 1744-3857
Dryden, L., & Watson, R. (2010). Journal of Stevenson Studies. Centre for Scottish Studies, Universtiy of Stirling
International refereed journal edited by Dryden and Watson
Dryden, L. (2009). Review of Richard Hand ed., Conrad's Victory: The Play and Reviews. Conradiana. 42, 180-183. doi:10.1353/cnd.2010.0014. ISSN 0010-6356
Dryden, L. (2009). Stevenson and popular culture. NJES : Nordic journal of English studies. 9.3, 11-24. ISSN 1654-6970
Dryden, L. (2008). Introduction: Writing Twixt Land and Sea. In L. Dryden, S. Arata, & E. Massie (Eds.), Stevenson and Conrad: writers of transition, 1-12. Texas Tech University Press
Dryden, L. (2008). Performing Malaya. In K. Baxter, & R. Hand (Eds.), Joseph Conrad and the performing Arts, 11-28. Ashgate Publishing Ltd
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...
Dryden, L. (2006). Sir High Clifford and the House of Blackwood. In D. Finkelstein (Ed.), Print culture and the BLackwood tradition 1805-1930, 215-235. University of Toronto Press
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
Dryden, L. (2000). Joseph Conrad and the Novel of Romance and Adventure: Almayer’s Folly. In L. L. Davis (Ed.), Conrad's Century: The Past and Future Splendour (Conrad, Eastern and Western Perspectives), 102-126. Columbia University Press
Dryden, L. (1999). Heart of Darkness and Allan Quatermain: Apocalypse and Utopia. Conradiana. 31, 173-198. ISSN 0010-6356
Dryden, L. (1999). Popular Culture, the Media, and the Literary Canon: The Case of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Diegesis: The Journal for Research in Popular Fictions Associations. , 54-64
£2250
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.
£28000
To raise the profile of Rabindranath Tagore in Scotland. To establish a basis for the launch of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs).
£34400
Master's Degree
This thesis examines the meaning, origin and influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s...
Doctorate
My PhD research focuses on the lived experience and literary representation...
Linda Dryden along with Lucille Bluefield has secured charity funding for former student Helena Roots to pursue a PhD within CLAW.
23 February 2016
Merchiston Campus C83a.
20 February 2018
St. Augustine's Church, Edinburgh
13 November 2017
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.
22 August 2017
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
15 August 2017
13 April 2016
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