Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915: Rereading the fin de siècle
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 869
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526124340
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This edited collection (introduction and ten chapters), the first on Marsh, developed from a symposium organised by Margree and Orrells at the University of Brighton in 2012 at which Vuohelainen was an invited speaker. Five of the collection’s ten essays were developed from papers given at the symposium, while another five were commissioned from leading fin-de-siècle scholars in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, US and Canada to ensure coverage of the many genres in which Marsh wrote but also to extend the collection’s international reach. As co-editors, Vuohelainen, Margree and Orrells worked closely together and with the contributors to develop the four thematic strands of the book: Topical Discourses of Crime; Masculinity and Money; Imperial Gothic; and Object Relations. While previous studies of Marsh had focused largely on urban, imperial and gendered themes in his bestselling Urban Gothic novel The Beetle, the collection substantially extends readings of Marsh’s work to previously unexplored texts, topics and genres.
The shared editorial work involved drafting a book proposal and securing a contract, helping authors to develop the arguments and structure of their chapters, suggesting revisions, incorporating cross references, ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency, and liaising with the press’s copy-editor. The editors worked jointly on revising the essays, and each of the essays was edited at least three times in the course of the project. Vuohelainen put together the index. The editors co-wrote the introduction (pp. 1-24), which situates Marsh within fin-de-siècle studies and demonstrates how reading Marsh and exploring the discursive discord that characterises his oeuvre can productively unsettle widely held critical orthodoxies about the literary culture of the fin de siècle. Vuohelainen also contributes a single-authored chapter (pp. 63-84) on Marsh’s Judith Lee detective stories that brings together genre studies and disability studies to explore the cross-fertilisation of popular genres and discourses.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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