Outputs (2)

The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006) (2016)
Journal Article

This essay seeks to supplement an established critical tradition that reads natural history in neo-Victorian fiction from a postmodern and largely de-politicised perspective. I argue that the figure of the naturalist can be used to revisit natural hi... Read More about The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006).

Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Morality Play is a historical detective novel set in the late fourteenth century and published in 1995, at a time of flourishing for historical fiction in Britain. This article argues that the novel shares some of the... Read More about Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history.