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). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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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). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_37The 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.
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. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts PressThis 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.
The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall (2016)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2016). The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to transformations (185-206). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_13In this extract from the memoir of her father, Gerald: A Portrait (1934), Daphne du Maurier resurrects the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier and places him in Whitby in 1917. This port town of North Yorkshire had been a favourite holiday retreat of Ger... Read More about The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall.
Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations (2016)
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Wynne, C. (2016). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047'My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side,' warns Dracula. This statement is descriptive of the Gothic genre. Like the Count, the Gothic encompasses and has manifested itself in many forms. Bram Stoker and the Goth... Read More about Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations.
Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage (2016)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2016). Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage. In K. Gelder (Ed.), New directions in popular fiction: Genre, distribution, reproduction (327-348). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_16‘In dramatising a novel, there are many advantages but many difficulties’, notes Bram Stoker, the theatre critic for Dublin’s Evening Mail, after viewing Wilkie Collins’s adaptation of The Woman in White (1860) at Dublin’s Theatre Royal in April 1872... Read More about Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage.
On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto (2016)
Book Chapter
Arnold, M. (2016). On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: formations to transformations (14-29). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047This essay assesses the extent to which Old Norse tradition provided the basis for a subspecies of literary horror. It focuses on those formations and interpretations of Old Norse Literature as it came gradually to light from the sixteenth century on... Read More about On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto.
Imperial and War trauma in Kipling (2012)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2012). Imperial and War trauma in Kipling. Kipling journal, 86(348), 40 - 57
Sherlock's progress through history: feminist revisions of Holmes (2012)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2012). Sherlock's progress through history: feminist revisions of Holmes. In S. Vanacker, & C. Wynne (Eds.), Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: multi-media afterlives (93-108). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291561_7In 1927 Arthur Conan Doyle published The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes , his fifth and final collection of short stories about the iconic detective.
Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction (2012)
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Wynne, C. (2012). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction. Abingdon, Oxon: The University of HullThough best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker’s theatrical reviews from Dublin’s Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, sele... Read More about Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction.
From Waterloo to Jellalabad: The Irish and Scots at war in R Elizabeth Thompson Butler D and W. F. Butler (2011)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2011). From Waterloo to Jellalabad: The Irish and Scots at war in R Elizabeth Thompson Butler D and W. F. Butler. Journal of European Studies, 41(2), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244111399719This essay examines the paintings of the British war artist Elizabeth Thompson Butler in conjunction with the travel, military and political writings of her husband William Francis Butler. It explores how their work both subscribes to and deviates fr... Read More about From Waterloo to Jellalabad: The Irish and Scots at war in R Elizabeth Thompson Butler D and W. F. Butler.
Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker and the Lyceum's Vampires (2011)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2011). Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker and the Lyceum's Vampires. Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (17 - 32). Pickering & Chatto
Sherlock Holmes and the problems of war: Traumatic detections (2010)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2010). Sherlock Holmes and the problems of war: Traumatic detections. English literature in transition, 1880-1920, 53(1), 29-53. https://doi.org/10.2487/elt.53.1%282010%290051
John Glendening. The evolutionary imagination in late-Victorian novels: an entangled bank. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007 (2009)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2009). John Glendening. The evolutionary imagination in late-Victorian novels: an entangled bank. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007. English literature in transition, 1880-1920, 52(3), 346 - 348
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou' (2009)
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Wynne, C. (2009). Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou'. ValancourtIn 1894, the publishing house of Archibald Constable & Co. launched a series of novels by well-known authors called The Acme Library. The two tales paired in this volume were the first two entries in the set. Unlike Constable's publication of Dracula... Read More about Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou'.
Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land (2009)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2009). Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land. Prose Studies, 31(2), 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440350903323553Although best known as a military artist and praised by John Ruskin, Elizabeth Butler (1846–1933) also produced two illustrated books of travel writing, Letters from the Holy Land (1903) and From Sketch-Book and Diary (1909). This essay examines Butl... Read More about Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land.
Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: multi-media afterlives
Book
Vanacker, S., & Wynne, C. Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: multi-media afterlives. The University of HullCo-edited collection with Sabine Vanacker
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian gothic stage
Book
Wynne, C. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian gothic stage. The University of Hull