Soldier Stories: The Irish In The Army From The Late Nineteenth Century To The First World War (2023)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2023). Soldier Stories: The Irish In The Army From The Late Nineteenth Century To The First World War. British Journal of Military History, 9(2), 81-105. https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i2.1712

By drawing on soldiers’ writings and their broader cultural representations, this article enables new ways of seeing Irish soldier identity as socially and politically mobile. Using Lady Butler’s famous ’Listed for the Connaught Rangers: Recruiting i... Read More about Soldier Stories: The Irish In The Army From The Late Nineteenth Century To The First World War.

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

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_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.

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 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.

Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine (2018)
Thesis
Hamand, M. E. (2018). Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4266367

The thesis includes a novel, Virgin and Child, and an exegesis, which explores how novelists creatively engage with issues of religion and morality within the genre of the literary thriller. The novel interweaves the Catholic position on issues of ge... Read More about Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine.

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_13

In 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.

The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars (2016)
Book Chapter
Williams, S. (2016). The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations (118-137). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_9

Like the bite of the vampire, the theme of marking punctuates Stoker’s work. Birthmarks, the indelible touch of the devouring mother, are seared into the skin of the child. Stoker’s lesser-read Gothics express Victorian patriarchal gynaecological anx... Read More about The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars.

Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations (2016)
Book
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.