Orbis LitterarumVolume 75, Issue 4 p. 157-157 EDITORIAL New Editorial Team Lars Ole Sauerberg, Corresponding Author Lars Ole Sauerberg los@sdu.dk Search for more papers by this author Lars Ole Sauerberg, Corresponding Author Lars Ole Sauerberg los@sdu.dk Search for more papers by this author First published: 23 July 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12269Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume75, Issue4August 2020Pages 157-157 RelatedInformation

This chapter selects extracts from Herman Melville’s 1849 novel Redburn, which give uniquely detailed descriptions of Liverpool at mid-century. He particularly registered the poverty around the docks and the presence of beggars. The narrative constantly demonstrates the city’s development in contrast with an earlier guidebook and details the life ashore of visiting seamen.

Orbis LitterarumVolume 74, Issue 2 p. 148-149 BOOK REVIEW The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life , Stefanie Markovits (ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 302 pp. Lars Ole Sauerberg, Lars Ole Sauerberg orcid.org/0000-0003-3208-7801 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DenmarkSearch for more papers by this author Lars Ole Sauerberg, Lars Ole Sauerberg orcid.org/0000-0003-3208-7801 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DenmarkSearch for more papers by this author First published: 25 February 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12214Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume74, Issue2April 2019Pages 148-149 RelatedInformation

Orbis LitterarumVolume 74, Issue 4 p. 307-308 BOOK REVIEW Interconnecting Music and the Literary Word , Fausto Ciompi, Roberta Ferrari, Laura Giovanelli (eds.) Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2018, 225 pp. Lars Ole Sauerberg, Lars Ole Sauerberg orcid.org/0000-0003-3208-7801 University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, DenmarkSearch for more papers by this author Lars Ole Sauerberg, Lars Ole Sauerberg orcid.org/0000-0003-3208-7801 University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, DenmarkSearch for more papers by this author First published: 25 February 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12224Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume74, Issue4August 2019Pages 307-308 RelatedInformation

Historical sources are often, and sometimes flippantly, referred to as the forerunners of present-day popular literature. Like most other fiction with a popular appeal the modern legal thriller, as one species of crime fiction, had its material genesis in the rapidly developing mass-market print and distribution technology around 1900, and was generically related to other narratives featuring crime stories, with the private investigator dominating at the time. The genre of the legal thriller grew out of the crime story adapting itself to the demands of a mass-market audience which fully matured only in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. The legal thriller in its present-day appearance is very much fiction relying rather rigidly on a set generic pattern, in the sense of a huge range of narratives of near identical structure and subject matter, with enough similarity to each other to gratify expectations of familiarity and enough difference to generate continued interest to devotees of the genre.