Outputs (28)

Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre (2024)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2024). Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre. Punk & Post-Punk, 13(2), 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk_00251_1

A sign which regularly appears on the door of St Mary’s Church in Whitby, North Yorkshire, alerts visitors that Dracula is not buried in the churchyard. Dracula arrives in Whitby in Bram Stoker’s fiction, exits the stage and finally turns to dust nea... Read More about Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre.

Victims and vulnerabilities: romance, finance and fraud from Wilkie Collins to Agatha Christie (2024)
Thesis
Linford, E. L. Victims and vulnerabilities: romance, finance and fraud from Wilkie Collins to Agatha Christie. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4866134

“Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective (2024)
Thesis
Maddalena, H. “Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4571280

This dissertation deepens and extends the modern field of study of “golden age” mystery authors Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham by closely examining the two writers’ individual development of the classical trope of the gentleman detective.
Since i... Read More about “Parodied, pastiched, pilloried” and polished: Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham’s development of the gentleman detective.

Conan Doyle’s “young, athletic sporting men”: Class, Empire, War and the Boxing Body (2021)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2021). Conan Doyle’s “young, athletic sporting men”: Class, Empire, War and the Boxing Body. In N. Clausson (Ed.), Re-examining Arthur Conan Doyle (41-58). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Victorian Stage Magic, Adventure and the Mutilated Body (2021)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2021). Victorian Stage Magic, Adventure and the Mutilated Body. In C. Bloom (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic (691-710). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_37

The period of ‘high imperialism’ in the late nineteenth century converges with what was known as the ‘Golden Age’ of stage magic. I examine how imperial adventure narratives of the late century and stage magicians both deploy illusions to showcase We... Read More about Victorian Stage Magic, Adventure and the Mutilated Body.

Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir (2020)
Thesis
Knightley, R. (2020). Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4923074

This thesis comprises a novel and an exegesis. Anything But Summertime is a theatrical literary domestic noir novel of London theatre. Set designer Joanna ‘Very’ Cross, ex-Catholic blue-haired goth, is about to light her last cigarette before quittin... Read More about Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir.

The Legacy of Empire and the Politics of the Family in the Neo-Historical Fictions of Egypt, Ireland and India (2019)
Thesis
Alharthi, L. S. A. (2019). The Legacy of Empire and the Politics of the Family in the Neo-Historical Fictions of Egypt, Ireland and India. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4912925

This thesis addresses neo-historical novels dealing with the legacy of the British Empire and its enduring impact on family. It focuses on the colonial experience in three countries colonized by Britain: Egypt, Ireland and India. It examines fives ne... Read More about The Legacy of Empire and the Politics of the Family in the Neo-Historical Fictions of Egypt, Ireland and India.

Neo-Holmesian Fiction (2019)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2019). Neo-Holmesian Fiction. In J. M. Allan, & C. Pittard (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes (213-227). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316659274.016

Lady Butler: War artist and traveller, 1846-1933 (2019)
Book
Wynne, C. (2019). Lady Butler: War artist and traveller, 1846-1933. Four Courts Press

This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in 1874.

Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic (2019)
Thesis
Crofts, M. R. Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4739178

The Gothic tyrant is a figure that not only plays a vital role in generating fear and manipulating the balance of power in Gothic fiction, but one that has survived throughout the mode’s changing form. It is tyranny that frequently turns Gothic tales... Read More about Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic.