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Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart (2018)
Journal Article
Crofts, M. (2018). Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart. Victoriographies, 8(3), 290-306. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2018.0319

Dickens’s extraordinary literary reputation and close associations with the Victorian period can be seen in action through the lasting comparisons between his most read novel, A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and a now obscure play by the writer Watts Ph... Read More about Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart.

"The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation (2016)
Journal Article
Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2016). "The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation. Femspec, 16(1), pp.19-43

Fairy stories, it seems, are growing up. Neil Gaiman’s novel Stardust (1999) and Matthew Vaughn’s 2007 film adaptation of the same name are just two examples of the form’s recent resurgence, particularly in film. Recent additions to the genre are dis... Read More about "The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation.