Outputs (39)

“A Thing Of Dreams And Desires, A Siren, A Whisper, And A Seduction”: Mermaids and the seashore in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine (2021)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2021). “A Thing Of Dreams And Desires, A Siren, A Whisper, And A Seduction”: Mermaids and the seashore in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine. Shima, 15(2), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.142

The Sea Lady (1901) is one of the more neglected early novels of H. G. Wells, particularly compared to his more famous scientific romances. Both a social satire and a mediation on the limits of human imagination, Wells’s only mermaid story has drawn... Read More about “A Thing Of Dreams And Desires, A Siren, A Whisper, And A Seduction”: Mermaids and the seashore in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine.

Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle (2020)
Book
Alder, E. (2020). Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32652-4

This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From l... Read More about Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle.

The more-than-visible world: Algernon Blackwood, occult epistemology, and ecological ethics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2019, April). The more-than-visible world: Algernon Blackwood, occult epistemology, and ecological ethics. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science annual conference, Royal Holloway University

Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels (2018)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2018). Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels. In Global Frankenstein (209-225). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78142-6

Frankenstein is surprisingly well-suited to stories aimed at children and is often adapted for young readerships. This essay explores why, through a focus on graphic narratives. I examine five books: picturebooks Do not build a Frankenstein! by Neil... Read More about Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Picturebooks and Graphic Novels.

Frankenstein’s children: young scientists in children’s literature (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, September). Frankenstein’s children: young scientists in children’s literature. Paper presented at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1818-2018 : Circuits and Circulation, Università di Bologna

Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’ (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, July). Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’. Paper presented at 14th Conference of the IGA 'Gothic Hybridities', Manchester Metropolitan University

For most of the long nineteenth century, the apparently hybrid biological workings and the unstable taxonomical status of moulds and fungi puzzled and fascinated scientists. Their ubiquity, plasticity, and position in what Ernst Haeckel termed a ‘bou... Read More about Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’.

‘The brain of a devil’: Arthur Machen’s Reconstructed Demons (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, April). ‘The brain of a devil’: Arthur Machen’s Reconstructed Demons. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science annual conference, Oxford Brookes University

Underwater Plastic Frankenstein (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2017, November). Underwater Plastic Frankenstein. Paper presented at Gothic Nature, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Through Oceans Darkly: Sea Literature and the Nautical Gothic (2017)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2017). Through Oceans Darkly: Sea Literature and the Nautical Gothic. Gothic Studies, 19(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.7227/gs.0025

No abstract available.

(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction (2017)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2017). (Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction. Textual Practice, 31(6), 1083-1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2017.1358686

Early twentieth century weird tales occupy an important place in the development of genre fictions. Among the innovations they contribute are new forms of monsters, diverging from earlier Gothic or mythological traditions, which spring, in part, from... Read More about (Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction.

Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Twenty-First Century Picture Books (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2017, July). Our Progeny’s Monsters: Frankenstein Retold for Children in Twenty-First Century Picture Books. Paper presented at 13th Conference of the IGA 'Traditions and Departures', Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico

H. G. Wells and the Natural World (2017)
Digital Artefact
Alder, E. H. G. Wells and the Natural World. [Blog]

Arrival review: first-contact film finds new way to explore the ‘otherness’ of aliens (2016)
Digital Artefact
Alder, E. (2016). Arrival review: first-contact film finds new way to explore the ‘otherness’ of aliens. [Magazine]

Bodily Knowing: Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Three Drugs’ and ‘The Five Senses’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2016, June). Bodily Knowing: Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Three Drugs’ and ‘The Five Senses’. Paper presented at The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century, Newcastle University

Becoming a student of English: students experiences of transition into the first year. (2016)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2016). Becoming a student of English: students experiences of transition into the first year. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022216628303

This study explored the transition to university as experienced by first-year students of English studies. The first year has been identified by existing research as a critical time for new students in terms of their persistence and success on their... Read More about Becoming a student of English: students experiences of transition into the first year..

“Not same. Not different, either”: Ways of knowing and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2015, September). “Not same. Not different, either”: Ways of knowing and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being. Paper presented at ASLE-UKI

Doctor Moreau’s Pink Rabbits (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2015, April). Doctor Moreau’s Pink Rabbits. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science annual conference, Liverpool University

'Kraken'. (2014)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2014). 'Kraken'. In J. Weinstock (Ed.), The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate Publishing

'Sea Monsters'. (2014)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2014). 'Sea Monsters'. In J. Weinstock (Ed.), The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate Publishing

The dark mythos of the sea: William Hope Hodgson’s transformation of maritime legends (2014)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2014). The dark mythos of the sea: William Hope Hodgson’s transformation of maritime legends. In M. Berruti, S. T. Joshi, & S. Gafford (Eds.), William Hope Hodgson: Voices from the Borderland (56-72). Hippocampus Press

No abstract available.