Ellen Burton Harrington
Ellen Burton Harrington | Professor and Chair Specializes in British Victorian literature, detective and sensation fiction, and 19th century gender and colonial contexts. HUMB 243 | 460-6146 | eharrington@southalabama.edu |
Conrad's Sensational Heroines: Gender and Representation in the Late Fiction of Joseph
Conrad. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. |
Books Edited
- Scribbling Women and the Form of the Short Story: Approaches to American and British Short Fiction by Women Writers, a critical anthology of fourteen essays focusing on women American and British short fiction writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lang, 2008.
Edited Special Issue
- GoGwilt, Christopher, Ellen Burton Harrington, and Nidesh Lawtoo, eds. and intro. "Conradian Crosscurrents," Conradiana, 48.2/3 (2020 for 2016): 111-310.
Articles
- "Witnessing the Remains in Zola's Thérèse Raquin and Conrad's The Secret Agent." Conradiana, 50.2 (2021 for 2018): 143-58.
- "Aïssa’s Curse in An Outcast of the Islands." The Conradian, 45.2 (2020): 54-61.
- Harrington, Ellen Burton and John G. Peters. "Conrad, Lombroso, and Animals." The Conradian, 44.2 (2019): 19-36.
- "The Rise of the American Woman Detective: Gender and the Detective Genre in Anna Katharine Green, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mary Roberts Rinehart." A History of American Crime Fiction. Ed. Christopher Raczkowski. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017. 123-35.
- "The Case of Mrs Schomberg in Victory." The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 40.2 (Autumn 2015): 15-24.
- "'Dead men have no children' in Conrad's 'The Idiots' and 'Amy Foster.'" Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 43:2-3 (published 2014 for 2011): 93-104.
- "Suicide, Feminism, and 'the miserable dependence of girls' in 'The Idiots,' The Secret Agent, and Chance." The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 37.2 (2012): 50-66.
- "Terror, Nostalgia, and the Pursuit of Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock." The Transmedia Adventures of Sherlock. Eds. Kristina Busse and Louisa Stein. McFarland, 2012. 70-84.
- "The 'test of feminine investigation' in Orczy's Lady Molly of Scotland Yard Stories." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 26.4 (2009): 24-34.
- "Nation, Identity, and the Fascination with Forensic Science in Sherlock Holmes and CSI." International Journal of Cultural Studies 10.3 (2007): 365-82.
- "The Female Offender, the New Woman, and Winnie Verloc in Conrad's The Secret Agent." The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 32.1 (2007). Simultaneously published in The Secret Agent: Centennial Essay. Eds. A. H. Simmons & J. H. Stape Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
- "From the Lady and the Law to the Lady Detective: Gender and Voice in Collins and Dickens." Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative 6.1 (2006): 19-31.
- "Failed Detectives and Dangerous Females: Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Detective Short Story." Journal of the Short Story in English 45 (2005): 13-28.
- "The Anarchist's Wife: Joseph Conrad's Debt to Sensation Fiction in The Secret Agent." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 36.1-2 (2004): 51-63.
- "That 'Blood-Stained Inanity': Detection, Repression, and Conrad's The Secret Agent." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 31:2 (1999): 114-19.
Reviews and Other Writing
- Book Review of Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent. Ed. Tanya Agathocleous (Broadview). Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 44.2-3 (2014 for 2012): 254-55.
- Book Review of Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad: Love Between the Lines. Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 42.1-2 (2010): 171-77.
- Book Review of Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945. Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 42.1-2 (2010): 184-87.
- Joseph Conrad's "Amy Foster." Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts on File, 2007.
- Book Review of Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature and Conrad's Narratives of Difference: Not Exactly Tales for Boys. Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 36.3 (2004): (251) 61.
- "Shirley Ann Grau." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Short Story Writers Since World War II. Eds. Patrick Meanor and Gwen Crane. Second Series. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 173-79.