Stephen Knight

Medieval Literature and Social Politics: Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts

S Knight

Book  |  2021

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primaril..

'The Original Hoods' Late Medieval English Crime Fiction

Stephen Knight

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EARLY MODERN STUDIES

Early crime fiction is usually linked to the true crime stories that developed into The Newgate Calendar by the mid-eighteenth cen..

`Foreword’, `Edgar Wallace(1875-1932): 1905, The Four Just Men’ and `Robert Barnard (1936-2013), 1974, Death of an Old Goat’

Stephen Knight

Book Chapter  |  2020

With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book conside..

Robert Barnard (1936–2013), 1974: Death of an Old Goat

Stephen Knight

Book Chapter  |  2020

Born on 23 November 1936 in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, Robert Barnard studied English at Balliol College Oxford, lectured at the Un..

Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), 1905: The Four Just Men

Stephen Knight

Book Chapter  |  2020

Commentators seem unable to avoid using the term ‘phenomenon’ to describe Edgar Richard Horatio Wallace, referring usually to his ..

`Spooks and Plants: The Crime Fiction of Michael Wilding'

Stephen Knight

Journal article  |  2019  |  Sydney Review of Books

`Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and London’

Stephen Knight

Book Chapter  |  2019

Doyle, holmes and London

S Knight

Book Chapter  |  2019

G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction The Man Who Outsold Dickens Introduction

Stephen Knight

Book Chapter  |  2019

Industrial Fiction

S Knight

Book Chapter  |  2019

A study of industrial fiction from Wales, mostly in English, but with some Welsh-language instances, all discussed texts coming f..