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Horace Dorrington, Criminal-Detective: Investigating the Re-emergence of the Rogue in Arthur Morrison’s The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897)

by Clare Clarke

Clues 28.2 (Autumn 2010)

This article examines The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897), Arthur Morrison’s critically neglected second contribution to... more This article examines The Dorrington Deed-Box (1897), Arthur Morrison’s critically neglected second contribution to the post–Sherlock Holmes detective short story genre. The article argues that as Dorrington is both a detective and a criminal, and the victim is the narrator, the stories subvert the usual reassuring moral and formal conventions of the late-Victorian detective genre. The Dorrington Deed-Box therefore contributes to a necessary re-evaluation of the formal, political, and ideological complexity of a genre that is more conventionally concerned with the upholding of law and order.

The Christmas Season and the Protestant Churches in England, c. 1870–1914

by Neil Armstrong

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 01 October 2011 62: 744-762

Histories of the English Christmas tend to downplay the role of religion in the development of the modern festival.... more Histories of the English Christmas tend to downplay the role of religion in the development of the modern festival. This article examines the place of religion in the popular celebration of Christmas, as well as the provision of worship offered by the Protestant Churches during the festive season. It argues that although some churchmen viewed Christmas pessimistically as part of a broader battle between sacred and secular, the Churches played an important role in the expansion of the urban public culture of Christmas in the late nineteenth century, whilst the doctrine of the incarnation provided a religious framework for the celebration of childhood and domesticity that the festival had come to embody.

‘Creative Sparks: Literary Responses to Electricity, 1830-1880’

by Stella Pratt-Smith

Doctoral thesis (completed September 2011, viva January 2012)

My thesis examines accounts of electricity in journalism, short stories, novels, poetry and instructional writings,... more My thesis examines accounts of electricity in journalism, short stories, novels, poetry and instructional writings, composed between 1830 and 1880 by scientific investigators, popular practitioners and fiction authors. The writings are approached as diverse and often incongruous impressions of electricity, in which the use of figurative and narrative techniques brings into question distinctions between science and literature. The thesis contends that electricity’s anomalous and protean nature produced distinctively hybrid responses that enhance our understanding of contemporary popular writing, its contexts and how it was read.

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by Oliver Carpenter

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Poison, Sensation, and Secrets in The Lifted Veil

by Cheryl Blake Price

This paper was published in the spring 2010 issue of The Victorian Review.

“Staging the French Revolution,” Browning Society Notes, vol. 30 (March 2005): 17-28.

by Kristan Tetens

"Commemorating the French Revolution on the Victorian Stage: Henry Irving's 'The Dead Heart,'" Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, vol. 32, no. 2 (Winter 2005): 36-69.

by Kristan Tetens

Victorian Studies review of "The Lyceum and the Lord Chamberlain: The Case of Hall Caine's Mahomet," in Richard Foulkes, ed., Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager (Ashgate, 2008).

by Kristan Tetens

"The Lyceum and the Lord Chamberlain: The Case of Hall Caine's Mahomet," in Richard Foulkes, ed., Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager (Ashgate, 2008).

by Kristan Tetens