Possible Chapters

1. The Invisible Man (1897)
2. The Time Machine (1895)
3. Sherlock Holmes (1902) and Dracula (1897)
4. The Woman in White


[Green on my exam comments, talking about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula "....miss an opportunity to locate the novels more specifically within literary history. What difference might it make that these novels are both specifically from teh end of the century, and that they are both in the idiom of popular literature (Stevenson's famously written as a "shilling shocker") and not within the mainstream idiom of fictional realism..."

I think I might make this a central question to the dissertation. And that will solve my but these are all short novels problem. Trying to build a bridge between popular novels (or novellas) and classic realist novels (which we always think of as being longer). Are these texts dismissed as not novels because they aren't realist? Maybe scholars assume that the same experiments in realism and narrative representation don't happen in the novels I'm talking about because they are shorter than, say, Middlemarch.

I added Dracula here because I forgot that on my exam I tried to argue that Van Helsing relies on science to defeat Dracula. Green then pointed out that he does a mixture of science and superstition, such as garlic and stakes through the heart. This falls in line with the supernatural and scientific discourses coinciding in the same text in order to comprehensively get at realism (i.e. questioning the nature of what is real or reality).