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The Complete Scottish Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham
Read more: The Complete Scottish Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame GrahamCunninghame Graham's great-grandnephew reveals his favourite sketch of the celebrated Scottish writer
A career in crime: Dr Eric Sandberg reflects on research in crime fiction studies
I came to crime fiction studies through the back door. Like many people, I grew up reading mysteries. Franklin W. Dixon’s Hardy Boys series was an early favourite – I coveted the small blue hardcovers with a greedy passion, and…
A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens’s use of direct thought presentation
by Pablo Ruano Delving into characters’ minds is not Dickens’s strong suit. On the contrary, Dickens’s figures are best known for their simplicity, being frequently characterized by a repeated use of either a striking phrase that dominates their speech (such…