Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915 - Rereading the Fin De SieClePevná vazba
Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915 - Rereading the Fin De SieClePevná vazba This collection of essays questions our assumptions about the fin de si cle by exploring the…
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Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915 - Rereading the Fin De SieClePevná vazba
This collection of essays questions our assumptions about the fin de si cle by exploring the fiction of Richard Marsh (1857-1915), one of the most prolific and popular authors of the period, whose bestselling Gothic novel The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker's Dracula for several decades.Born Richard Bernard Heldmann, he began his literary career penning boys' stories under his real name but, following a prison sentence for fraud, reinvented himself as 'Richard Marsh' in 1888. His stories of shape-shifting monsters, daring but morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life helped to shape the genres with which we are familiar today. A versatile contributor to the literary and journalistic culture of his time, Marsh produced middlebrow genre fiction including Gothic, crime, humour, romance and adventure.