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dc.identifier	ECF_article_4857
dc.title	Beyond the Boundaries of Realism. Monstrous Islands and Literary Hybrids at the Fin de Siècle in Conan Doyle’s, R. L. Stevenson’s and H. G. Wells’s Fiction
dc.contributor.author	Gay Julie
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2020/1/beyond-the-boundaries-of-realism/
dc.description.abstract	This article explores the way in which at the fin de siècle, Doyle, Stevenson and Wells chose to set their works on marginal islands in order to spatially escape not only from the bleak reality of the modern world, but also from the constraints of realism, and to reconnect with more imaginative forms of writing. It thus aims to shed new light on the relationship between geographical space and literary aesthetics, and to demonstrate that the island space is especially conducive to generic excursions out of realism and towards the fantastic, the marvellous and even the monstrous, leading to the creation of eminently hybrid literary texts.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 7 \| December 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-12-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-11-06
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2020/01/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aesthetics
dc.subject	Aesthetics
dc.subject	Border-crossing
dc.subject	Border-crossing
dc.subject	Doyle
dc.subject	Doyle
dc.subject	Escapism
dc.subject	Escapism
dc.subject	Fantastic
dc.subject	Fantastic
dc.subject	Fin de siècle
dc.subject	Fin de siècle
dc.subject	Form
dc.subject	Form
dc.subject	Genre
dc.subject	Genre
dc.subject	Geopoetics
dc.subject	Geopoetics
dc.subject	Gothic
dc.subject	Gothic
dc.subject	Hybridity
dc.subject	Hybridity
dc.subject	Islands
dc.subject	Islands
dc.subject	Marvellous
dc.subject	Marvellous
dc.subject	Monsters
dc.subject	Monsters
dc.subject	Narrative Annexe
dc.subject	Narrative Annexe
dc.subject	Realism
dc.subject	Realism
dc.subject	Romance
dc.subject	Romance
dc.subject	Space
dc.subject	Space
dc.subject	Stevenson
dc.subject	Stevenson
dc.subject	Uncanny
dc.subject	Uncanny
dc.subject	Victorian Era
dc.subject	Victorian Era
dc.subject	Wells
dc.subject	Wells

Research Article
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Monstrous Islands and Literary Hybrids at the Fin de Siècle in Conan Doyle’s, R. L. Stevenson’s and H. G. Wells’s Fiction

Julie Gay Université de Poitiers, France

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abstract

This article explores the way in which at the fin de siècle, Doyle, Stevenson and Wells chose to set their works on marginal islands in order to spatially escape not only from the bleak reality of the modern world, but also from the constraints of realism, and to reconnect with more imaginative forms of writing. It thus aims to shed new light on the relationship between geographical space and literary aesthetics, and to demonstrate that the island space is especially conducive to generic excursions out of realism and towards the fantastic, the marvellous and even the monstrous, leading to the creation of eminently hybrid literary texts.

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Dec. 21, 2020

Accepted

Dec. 12, 2020

Submitted

Nov. 6, 2020

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Keywords: Marvellous • Aesthetics • Monsters • Uncanny • Form • Space • Genre • Islands • Stevenson • Escapism • Wells • Realism • Victorian Era • Romance • Border-crossing • Fin de siècle • Geopoetics • Hybridity • Narrative Annexe • Gothic • Fantastic • Doyle

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