Member Profile
Name:
Elaine Goodey
Institution:
University of Birmingham (M4C sponsored Doctoral Researcher)
Academic status:
Student
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
History
Criminology
History
Criminology
Other societies:
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Research interests:
Primary research: Texts published by retired police detectives 1880-1930
Other areas of interest:
- How society reacts to crime, and uses media such as newspapers, television dramatizations and podcasts to explore both ‘true crime’ and fictionalised crime.
- Spy fiction, the close cousin of crime fiction.
- 'Condition of England' texts, specifically those by Charles Dickens, Jack London and Margaret Harkness
- During my BA I developed an interest in how a sense of nationhood is cultivated through literature, specifically in the texts of Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy.
- Analysis of auto/biography
- The self and self-fashioning
- Autobiografiction, the generic model propounded by Stephen Reynolds in 1906.
- The period 1840-1939, bookended by Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin short stories and the Golden Age heyday; encompassing Dickens, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton and Christie, amongst others.
Other areas of interest:
- How society reacts to crime, and uses media such as newspapers, television dramatizations and podcasts to explore both ‘true crime’ and fictionalised crime.
- Spy fiction, the close cousin of crime fiction.
- 'Condition of England' texts, specifically those by Charles Dickens, Jack London and Margaret Harkness
- During my BA I developed an interest in how a sense of nationhood is cultivated through literature, specifically in the texts of Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy.
- Analysis of auto/biography
- The self and self-fashioning
- Autobiografiction, the generic model propounded by Stephen Reynolds in 1906.
- The period 1840-1939, bookended by Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin short stories and the Golden Age heyday; encompassing Dickens, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton and Christie, amongst others.