Reviews
"Richardson delivers perceptive readings of the intertextual relations among many novels and exposes deep ideological connections amid their differences."
--Nineteenth Century Gender Studies
…her interpretative ability is impressive, and her perspectives are original and thought-provoking.
--Times Literary Supplement
…a welcome addition to our knowledge of the complex relation between the late-Victorian cultural debate on gender, race and empire, and two popular fictional genres of the fin de siécle…offer[s] new and refreshing perspectives…
--English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
…provides intriguing ways of seeing, with its illuminating treatment of two consequential subgenres of the late Victorian period.
--Victorian Studies
"Her interpretative ability is impressive, and her perspectives are original and thought provoking. Richardson means to establish new readings of individual texts and stake a claim to new critical territory."
--Times Online
" Pushes beyond existing canonical boundaries. A lively, convincingly argued book in which the shared tropes and ideological concerns of colonial adventure fiction are vividly brought to the fore. Makes a really substantial and lasting contribution."
--Tulsa Studies in Woman's Literature