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Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction (2020)
Book Chapter
Hatter, J. (2020). Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction. In A. E. Gavin, & C. W. de la L. Oulton (Eds.), British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s (265-278). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6

Janine Hatter examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s sensation fiction and the changing relationship between crime, genre, gender, class and the periodical press. Focusing on 'Taken at the Flood', 'The Cloven Foot', ‘Dr. Carrick’ and ‘Mr. and Mrs. d... Read More about Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction.

“Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode (2019)
Book Chapter
Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2020). “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode. In R. Heholt, & M. Edmundson (Eds.), Gothic animals: Uncanny otherness and the animal with-out (127-140). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34540-2_8

Rats are inherently Gothic animals—uncannily intelligent, cannibalistic, constantly present, often unseen but constantly watching. As a single entity, or as part of a pack, the rat is a powerful vehicle for delivering horror in the popular Gothic ima... Read More about “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode.

Gerard; or The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1892). Mary Elizabeth Braddon. (2018)
Book Chapter
Hatter, J. (2018). Gerard; or The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1892). Mary Elizabeth Braddon. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction (93). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland

Encyclopedia entry First paragraph: One of Braddon’s later novels, Gerard is a rewriting of the Faust myth through an engagement with fin-de-siècle fears of moral degeneration, loss of religious belief, illegitimacy and increasing scientific know... Read More about Gerard; or The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1892). Mary Elizabeth Braddon..

Joseph Peters (2018)
Book Chapter
Hatter, J. (2018). Joseph Peters. In E. Sandberg (Ed.), 100 Greatest Literary Detectives (144-146). Rowman & Littlefield

Encyclopedia entry First paragraph: “[. . .] he was useful, quiet, and steady, and above all, as his patrons said, he was to be relied on, because he could not talk.” The Trail of the Serpent was Mary Braddon’s first novel, and with it she... Read More about Joseph Peters.