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Review of Matthew Beaumont. The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siecle. (2013)
Journal Article
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

Penguin Editions of Conrad: A Review Essay by Linda Dryden (2009)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2009). Penguin Editions of Conrad: A Review Essay by Linda Dryden. English literature in transition, 1880-1920, 52, 196

This is a review essay requested by the Editor of English Literature in Transition. The essay gives an overview of the importance of Joseph Conrad and then discusses the merits of the new Penguin editions of his work.

Times indeed are changed: Conrad, "Typhoon" and Pall Mall Magazine. (2009)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2009). Times indeed are changed: Conrad, "Typhoon" and Pall Mall Magazine. Conradiana, 41, 132-152. https://doi.org/10.1353/cnd.2011.0015

This is a journal article in a special edited edition of Conradiana. It discusses Joseph Conrad's publishing history prior to and during his relationship with Pall Mall Magazine, focussing specifically on the serialization of 'Typhoon.'

H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad: a literary friendship. (2005)
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

Joseph Conrad and psychological medicine: a review essay (2004)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2004). Joseph Conrad and psychological medicine: a review essay. Conradiana, 35, 259-67

The essay is a review of Martin Bock's Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine that discusses recent approaches to Conrad sudies by way of contextualising Bock's book.

A Note on When the Sleeper Wakes and Heart of Darkness (2004)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2004). A Note on When the Sleeper Wakes and Heart of Darkness. Notes and Queries, 171-174

This article discusses the fact that Heart of Darkness is mentioned in H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes. It argues that due to publication dates, it would seem that Wells knew about Conrad's story and may well have seen the manuscript.

'The Coming Terror': Well's outcast London and the modern gothic (2003)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2003). 'The Coming Terror': Well's outcast London and the modern gothic. Victorian Gothic: Leeds Centre Working Papers in Victorian Studies, 6, 41-55

This paper discusses the gothic tensions in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. It positions a story that is generally regarded as an early work of science fiction within a gothic context.

“To Boldly Go”: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and popular culture. (2002)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2002). “To Boldly Go”: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and popular culture. Conradiana, 34, 70-149

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-first century) is apparent through the allusions to the story in our media and... Read More about “To Boldly Go”: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and popular culture..