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Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire (2019)
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 Heart of Darkness (1901), but also in his fictions set in England and Europe.... Read More about Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire.

The Inheritors, H. G. Wells and Science Fiction: The Dimensions of the Future (2017)
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, Conrad and Ford published their collaborative novel The Inheritors, a fan... Read More about The Inheritors, H. G. Wells and Science Fiction: The Dimensions of the Future.

Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (2017)
Book Chapter
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. 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 recognition of Stevenson as a major late-nineteenth-century author who played a s... Read More about Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene. (2015)
Book
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, the book traces the relationship between the two authors at the close of t... Read More about Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin de Siecle Literary Scene..

Journal of Stevenson Studies. (2014)
Book
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.

'"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel' (2013)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2013). '"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel'. Studies in the Novel, 45, 214-33

The focus of this paper is H. G. Wells’s brief friendship with Joseph Conrad in the closing years of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. It was a friendship that would end in resentment, estrangement, and much disagreement ov... Read More about '"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel'.

Conrad, Ford, Wells and Modernism (2012)
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 to create a 'New Form' for the English novel. It positions Wells as being m... Read More about Conrad, Ford, Wells and Modernism.

Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. (2011)
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 moving in the direction of literary modernism as they wrote fictions that at... Read More about Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad..

Journal of Stevenson Studies. (2010)
Book
Dryden, L., & Watson, R. (2010). Journal of Stevenson Studies. Centre for Scottish Studies, Universtiy of Stirling

International refereed journal edited by Dryden and Watson

Stevenson and popular culture. (2010)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2010). Stevenson and popular culture. NJES : Nordic journal of English studies, 9.3, 11-24

Performing Malaya. (2009)
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 cultural stereotypes yet retain an individual humanity.

Introduction: Writing Twixt Land and Sea. (2009)
Book Chapter
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

Sir High Clifford and the House of Blackwood. (2007)
Book Chapter
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

The Hardys and William Mathie Parker. (2004)
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

'Karain': Constructing the Romantic Subject (2000)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2000). 'Karain': Constructing the Romantic Subject. In Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance, 110-136. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597075_6

In April 1898 Conrad wrote to Cunninghame Graham: ‘I am glad you like Karain. I was afraid you would despise it. There’s something magazine’ish about it. Eh? It was written for Blackwood’ (Letters 2, 57). Those ‘magazine’ish’ elements include a ghost... Read More about 'Karain': Constructing the Romantic Subject.