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Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad.

Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2011)
Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives, 86-97. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006
This paper offers a comparative study of some of the colonial fictions of Stevenson and Conrad. It takes a postcolonial position, arguing that both Stevenson and Conrad were m...

Journal of Stevenson Studies.

Book
Dryden, L., & Watson, R. (2010)
Journal of Stevenson Studies. Centre for Scottish Studies, Universtiy of Stirling
International refereed journal edited by Dryden and Watson

Review of Richard Hand ed., Conrad's Victory: The Play and Reviews

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2010)
Review of Richard Hand ed., Conrad's Victory: The Play and Reviews. Conradiana, 42, 180-183. https://doi.org/10.1353/cnd.2010.0014

Performing Malaya.

Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2009)
Performing Malaya. In K. Baxter, & R. Hand (Eds.), Joseph Conrad and the performing Arts (11-28). Ashgate Publishing
This is an essay in a collection called Conrad and Performance edited by Katherine Baxter and Richard Hand. It discusses how Conrad's characters in his Malay novels perform as...

Stevenson and popular culture.

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2009)
Stevenson and popular culture. NJES : Nordic journal of English studies. 9.3, 11-24. ISSN 1654-6970

Conrad and his readers.

Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2009)
Conrad and his readers. In A. H. Simmons (Ed.), Joseph Conrad in context (221-228). Cambridge University Press
This is an essay in a special collection called Conrad in Context. The essay discusses Conrad in the context of late-nineteenth-century reading practices.

Introduction

Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2009)
Introduction. In Stevenson and Conrad: writers of transition (1-12). Texas Tech University Press
This Introduction assesses Robert Louis Stevenson within the context of the reputation of Joseph Conrad. It discusses the cross-overs between their works, their mutual friends...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition

Book
(2009)
L. Dryden, S. Arata, & E. Massie (Eds.), Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition. Texas, USA: Texas Tech University Press
This edited book is the first complete book-length study to consider the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad within the same framework. It contains essays from in...

Introduction: Writing Twixt Land and Sea.

Book
Dryden, L. (2008)
Introduction: Writing Twixt Land and Sea. In L. Dryden, S. Arata, & E. Massie (Eds.), Stevenson and Conrad: writers of transition, 1-12. Texas Tech University Press

Penguin Editions of Conrad: A Review Essay by Linda Dryden

Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2008)
Penguin Editions of Conrad: A Review Essay by Linda Dryden. English literature in transition, 1880-1920. 52, 196. ISSN 1559-2715
This is a review essay requested by the Editor of English Literature in Transition. The essay gives an overview of the importance of Joseph Conrad and then discusses the merit...
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Century sickness and science in Scottish Gothic literature

2021 - date
Victoria Elliott | Director of Studies: Dr Emily Alder | Second Supervisor: Dr Scott Lyall

Superstition in 19th Century Seafaring Literature: Melville and Conrad

2019 - date
Federica Mascherpa | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden

Nineteenth-century girls and authorship: adolescent writing, appropriation, and its representation in literature, c 1860-1900

2015 - 2019
My PhD research focuses on the lived experience and literary representation...
Dr Lois Burke | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Schwan | Second Supervisor: Dr Sarah Artt

Robert Louis Stevenson: The mediation of literary reputation and the advent of modernism

2014 - date
Duncan Milne | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Dr Scott Lyall

Marginalisation vs. emancipation: the (new) woman question in Dollie Radford's diary and poetry

2012 - 2015
Hadeel Azhar | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

Representations of feminist and lesbian consciousness and the use of subversive strategies in selected poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873)

2009 - 2016
Sharon Gordon | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Bashabi Fraser

The influence of duality and Poe?s notion of the ?Bi-Part Soul? on the genesis of detective fiction in the nineteenth-century

2008 - 2010
This thesis examines the meaning, origin and influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s...
Dr Stephanie Craighill | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

H Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: a revisionist approach to Haggard's African fiction

2006 - 2017
Dr Kate Simpson | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Bashabi Fraser

Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music

2006 - 2012
Aspects of poetry and symmetry are taken to represent the tension within the compositional process between spontaneous impulses and intuitive insights ...
Dr John Eccles | Director of Studies: Mr. Ken Dempster

William Hope Hodgson's borderlands: monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siecle

2003 - 2009
Dr Emily Alder | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Sara Wasson