Outputs (4)

H. G. Wells and Joseph Conrad: a literary friendship (2007)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2007). 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 (2007)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2007). 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 essays edited by Ben Brabon and Stephanie Genz.

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 vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading (2007)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2007). 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 as well as Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde