Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915 : Rereading the Fin de Siècle.

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.

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.

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