TY - BOOK AU - Margree,Victoria AU - Orrells,Daniel AU - Vuohelainen,Minna TI - Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915: Rereading the Fin de Siècle T2 - Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Series SN - 9781526124357 AV - PR149.P66 .R534 2018 U1 - 820.9355 PY - 2018/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Marsh, Richard,-1857-1915-Criticism and interpretation KW - Popular literature-Great Britain-History and criticism KW - English fiction-History-19th century KW - English fiction-History-20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Richard Marsh and topical discourses of crime -- Tall tales and true: Richard Marsh and late Victorian journalism -- Mrs Musgrave's stain of madness: Marsh and the female offender -- 'The most dangerous thing in England'? Detection, deviance and disability in Richard Marsh's Judith Lee stories -- Part II: Richard Marsh, masculinity and money -- Speculative society, risk and the crime thriller: The Datchet Diamonds -- 'The crowd would have it that I was a hero': populism, New Humour and the male clerk in Marsh's Sam Briggs adventures -- Part III: Richard Marsh and the imperial Gothic -- 'In that Egyptian den': situating The Beetle within the fin-de-siècle fiction of Gothic Egypt -- Automata, plot machinery and the imperial Gothic in Richard Marsh's The Goddess -- Part IV: Richard Marsh and object relations -- 'Something was going from me - the capacity, as it were, to be myself': 'transformational objects' and the Gothic fiction of Richard Marsh -- Decadent aesthetics and Richard Marsh's The Mystery of Philip Bennion's Death -- 'Something on which you may exercise your ingenuity': diamonds and curious collectables in the fin-de-siècle fiction of Richard Marsh -- Index N2 - This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-siècle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5379748 ER -