text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko This question has motivated numerous texts – plays, novels, short stories, parodies, pastiches, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games – and apparently both their creators and the audiences are still fascinated with its (im)possible outcomes. Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper have developed in parallel and, up […]
text by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish We all know the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – the story of two different personalities trapped in one body. But in the case of Craig Russell’s Hyde this knowledge is used against the reader: you think you know what to expect and consequently miss the clues. The novel […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko The following text contains fragments from my latest article Transtemporality and Transmemory in Beforeigners: Or, “Jack the Ripper has timeigrated”, Again (Neo-Victorian Studies 14:1). Beforeigners (2019–) is an intriguing example of and commentary on the way in which transnational audiences and creators grapple with the myth of “Jack the Ripper”. The […]
