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Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now (2021)
Journal Article
Hatter, J., Ifill, H., Bloom, A. B., Costantini, M., Lambert, C., Pope, C., & Sanders, V. (2021). Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now. Victorian popular fictions journal, 3(1), 4--32. https://doi.org/10.46911/tfsa1481

Reclaiming lost or forgotten (Victorian) popular women writers and their works is still an important, ongoing aim of literary and gender studies. In this article, we take the Key Popular Women Writers series, published by Edward Everett Root Publishe... Read More about Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now.

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.

‘His most ardent desire is to be ranked with Zola and rejected by Mudie’: Gerard; or The World the Flesh and the Devil – M. E. Braddon’s Fin-de-Siècle Faustian Rewrite (2019)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2019). ‘His most ardent desire is to be ranked with Zola and rejected by Mudie’: Gerard; or The World the Flesh and the Devil – M. E. Braddon’s Fin-de-Siècle Faustian Rewrite. Victorian popular fictions journal, 1(1), 35-56. https://doi.org/10.46911/HMTW2498

Faust’s pact with the Devil and his subsequent decline into hedonism have been the basis for many rewritings and adaptations since Marlowe’s Elizabethan tragedy. Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s radical rewrite of the Faust myth from a fin-de-siècle perspect... Read More about ‘His most ardent desire is to be ranked with Zola and rejected by Mudie’: Gerard; or The World the Flesh and the Devil – M. E. Braddon’s Fin-de-Siècle Faustian Rewrite.

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.

Sensation and Professionalism in the Victorian Novel by Mariaconcetta Costantini (2017)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2017). Sensation and Professionalism in the Victorian Novel by Mariaconcetta Costantini. English Studies, 98(8), 1007-1009. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2017.1365560

Book Review First paragraph: Sensation and Professionalism in the Victorian Novel is volume 5 in Peter Lang’s “Victorian and Edwardian Studies” series, edited by Francesco Marroni, and it is a fascinating and worthwhile study of the rise of dive... Read More about Sensation and Professionalism in the Victorian Novel by Mariaconcetta Costantini.

"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.

Childhood disrupted : Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s unfinished autobiography Before the knowledge of evil (2015)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2015). Childhood disrupted : Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s unfinished autobiography Before the knowledge of evil. Peer English : the journal of new critical thinking, 11-25

As Mary Jean Corbett in Representing Femininity (1992), Linda Peterson in Traditions of Victorian Women’s Autobiography (1999) and David Amigoni in Life Writing and Victorian Culture (2006) have all noted, Victorian women could write about their live... Read More about Childhood disrupted : Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s unfinished autobiography Before the knowledge of evil.

Writing the vampire : M. E. Braddon’s Good Lady Ducayne and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2015)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2015). Writing the vampire : M. E. Braddon’s Good Lady Ducayne and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Supernatural studies, 2(2), 29-47

By the fin-de-siècle, vampire fiction already had a long-standing Gothic heritage, and yet, in the mid-1890s, two authors published their own vampire tales, hoping to make their mark in the popular genre. One author was an established best-seller wit... Read More about Writing the vampire : M. E. Braddon’s Good Lady Ducayne and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

‘(Re)Visiting and (Re)Visioning the Self/Other Divide in Science Fiction Transmutations of the Gothic (2013)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2013). ‘(Re)Visiting and (Re)Visioning the Self/Other Divide in Science Fiction Transmutations of the Gothic. Supernatural studies, 1(1), 39-52

Literary, cultural and historical critics alike have theorised that society’s values are based on dichotomies: majority/minority, oppressor/oppressed, men/women, young/old and good/evil. As Edward Said notes in his preface to Orientalism (1978): the... Read More about ‘(Re)Visiting and (Re)Visioning the Self/Other Divide in Science Fiction Transmutations of the Gothic.

The Parade of Identity: M. E. Braddon, The Travelling Circus Performer and the (Re)Construction of Self (2013)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2013). The Parade of Identity: M. E. Braddon, The Travelling Circus Performer and the (Re)Construction of Self. St. John's University humanities review, 10(1), pp.26-38

According to modern social psychology, the construction of identity occurs on three distinct levels: individual, relational and collective (Vignoles, Schwartz and Luyckx 3). Previously, psychologists argued that the three levels were self contained c... Read More about The Parade of Identity: M. E. Braddon, The Travelling Circus Performer and the (Re)Construction of Self.

Voicing the Self: Narration, Perspective and Identity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s "Prince Ramji Rowdedow" (1874) (2013)
Journal Article
Hatter, J. (2013). Voicing the Self: Narration, Perspective and Identity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s "Prince Ramji Rowdedow" (1874). Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, 3(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1386/fict.3.1.25_1

This article considers Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s use of the short story form and authorial, character and narrative voice in her theatrical tale ‘Prince Ramji Rowdedow’ (1874). As context for this article prevailing Victorian approaches to narrative v... Read More about Voicing the Self: Narration, Perspective and Identity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s "Prince Ramji Rowdedow" (1874).