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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. Robert Louis Stevenson and the G

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.

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 (8

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..

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

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.

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

'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.