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-siecle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period. -- .
1 Introduction – Victoria Margree, Daniel Orrells and Minna Vuohelainen Part I: Richard Marsh and topical discourses of crime 2 Tall tales and true: Richard Marsh and late-Victorian journalism – Nick Freeman 3 Mrs Musgrave’s stain of madness: Marsh and the female offender – Johan Höglund 4 ‘The most dangerous thing in England’? Detection, deviance and disability in Richard Marsh’s Judith Lee stories – Minna Vuohelainen Part II: Richard Marsh, masculinity and money 5 Speculative society, risk and the crime thriller: The Datchet Diamonds – Victoria Margree 6 ‘The crowd would have it that I was a hero’: populism, New Humour and the male clerk in Marsh’s Sam Briggs adventures – Mackenzie Bartlett Part III: Richard Marsh and the imperial Gothic 7 ‘In that Egyptian den’: situating The Beetle within the fin-de-siècle fiction of Gothic Egypt – Ailise Bulfin 8 Automata, plot machinery and the imperial Gothic in Richard Marsh’s The Goddess – Neil Hultgren Part IV: Richard Marsh and object relations 9 ‘Something was going from me – the capacity, as it were, to be myself’: ‘transformational objects’ and the Gothic fiction of Richard Marsh – Graeme Pedlingham 10 Decadent aesthetics and Richard Marsh’s The Mystery of Philip Bennion’s Death – Daniel Orrells 11 ‘Something on which you may exercise your ingenuity’: diamonds and curious collectables in the fin-de-siècle fiction of Richard Marsh – Jessica Allsop Index -- .
Victoria Margree is Principal Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Brighton Daniel Orrells is Reader in Ancient Literature and Its Reception at King's College London Minna Vuohelainen is Lecturer in English at City, University of London
