Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF SAMUEL SMILES’ SELF-HELP. …
Tag Archives: Literary criticism
Did Bram Stoker Suffer from Fleas?
Academic studies of Bram Stoker’s extraordinary vampire novel Dracula (1897) are today like so much landfill. Modernists and postmodernists, Freudians …
Reading Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris in light of The One Thousand and One Nights.
Eugène Sue’s serialised crime novel The Mysteries of Paris (1842-3) begins with a device that had been treasured by contributors …
TV Review: Martin’s Close.
“A Ghost Story for Christmas” is not merely a minor subgenre of the BBC’s drama output. It is in fact …
Christmas with Washington Irving.
Today the Christmas material in Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20) encompasses a jovial and expansive midsection …
Putting a Value on Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.
The central plot-line… is that of a mystery-of-kinship story whose basic literary shape derives from the mystery-romances of Gothic and …
One Great Man On Another.
“This is the dilemma that confronts partisans of resentment: either they must deny Shakespeare’s unique eminence (a painful and difficult …
The Place of Bitters (Pique-Vinaigre) in The Mysteries of Paris.
[Here are some notes on the names that are used in this article.] Almost a thousand pages into his serialised …
Book Review: Dracul.
[The following contains spoilers.] You cannot understand Count Dracula without first getting the lie of the land. One of the …
Short Story Review: The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion.
Count Dracula was the brainchild of the Irish writer Bram Stoker, who might seem to us today to be more …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Character of Prince Florizel.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF SAMUEL SMILES’ SELF-HELP. …
The Retrial of Meursault.
[Scene: A swelteringly hot courtroom in Algeria. Three judges, two in black and the third in scarlet, enter the courtroom …
What does Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina mean?
[The following contains spoilers.] I never read graphic novels – there is enough on my plate already! – but I …
Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter and The Puritan-Provincial Vision.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF “SELF-HELP.“ “Robert Louis …
Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. Had Samuel Smiles been ever asked …
