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The Gothic: Detection and Science Fiction. (2013)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2013). The Gothic: Detection and Science Fiction. In C. McCracken-Flesher (Ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (96-103). The Modern Languages Association

An essay on how Stevenson fits into the genre of detection and science fiction literature.

Entries on 'Lord Ruthven', 'The Vampire Lestat' and 'Dark Shadows'. (2013)
Book Chapter
Artt, S. (2013). Entries on 'Lord Ruthven', 'The Vampire Lestat' and 'Dark Shadows'. In J. Weinstock (Ed.), The Ashgate Encyclopaedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate Publishing

From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters thr... Read More about Entries on 'Lord Ruthven', 'The Vampire Lestat' and 'Dark Shadows'..

Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2013, December). Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism. Paper presented at World-literatures, Discrepant Transnationalisms: Beyond Region and Nation?, Stuttgart, Germany

The Scottish Renaissance Movement of the 1920-30s was a response to what many literary artists of the period saw as Scotland’s provincialisation within the United Kingdom and the British Empire. Hugh MacDiarmid, arguably the main protagonist of the m... Read More about Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism.

Review of 'The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen': (2013)
Book Chapter
Artt, S., Longden, K., McCabe, J., Formica, S., Tucker, P., & Wyver, J. (2013). Review of 'The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen':. In L. Raw, & R. G. Dryden (Eds.), Global Jane Austen; Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community. Palgrave Macmillan

Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2013, September). Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life. Paper presented at Lesser Victorians: Beyond the Canon in Victorian Fiction, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin

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The trial of Alexander Trocchi. (2013)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2013). The trial of Alexander Trocchi. In E. Bell, & L. Gunn (Eds.), The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (135-142). Rodopi

'"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'.

The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2013, April). The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference

Critical analyses of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) have attended closely to themes of biology, such as evolutionary degeneration, but those of physics have not been treated with comparable depth. While many accounts of The Time Machine do con... Read More about The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics..