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...
'To Boldly Go': Heart of Darkness and popular culture.
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2006)
'To Boldly Go': Heart of Darkness and popular culture. In P. B. Armstrong (Ed.), Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, 500-506. Norton Critical Edition
This is an extract of the paper published first in Conradiana and now included in the Norton anthology of essays accompanying the text of Heart of Darkness. The essays are sel...
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.
Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2017)
Monomaniacs, evolutionary science and the influence of Stevenson in Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau. In R. J. Hill (Ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair: Movement, Memory, and Modernity. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair: Movement, Memory, and Modernity: Routledge
This essay unravels some of the Stevensonian influences and literary allusions that Wells drew upon when conceiving The Island of Doctor Moreau. What emerges is a clear recogn...
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...
'Karain': Constructing the Romantic Subject
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2000)
'Karain': Constructing the Romantic Subject. In Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance, 110-136. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597075_6
In April 1898 Conrad wrote to Cunninghame Graham: ‘I am glad you like Karain. I was afraid you would despise it. There’s something magazine’ish about it. Eh? It was written fo...
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...