A companion to sensation fiction /

This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical contextIncludes studies of major topics...

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Other Authors: Gilbert, Pamela K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction / Pamela K Gilbert
  • Before Sensation, 1830₆1860. ₃The Aristocracy and Upholstery₄: The Silver Fork Novel / Ellen Miller Casey
  • Newgate Novels / Edward Jacobs, Manuela Mour̂o
  • ₃Literature of the Kitchen₄: Cheap Serial Fiction of the 1840s and 1850s / Andrew King
  • Melodrama / Rohan McWilliam
  • Sensation Theater / Heidi J Holder
  • Gothic / Patrick R O'Malley
  • Realism and Sensation Fiction / Daniel Brown
  • Poetry and Sensation / Kirstie Blair
  • Reading Individual Authors and Texts, 1860₆1880. Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Lyn Pykett
  • Lady Audley's Secret: How She Do It? Sensation Fiction's Technologically Minded Villainesses / Louise Lee
  • ₃Going in a Little for the Subjective₄: Textual and Moral Performance in / Richard Nemesvari
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon's / Amy J Robinson
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon's / Anne-Marie Beller
  • Wilkie Collins and Risk / Daniel Martin
  • and the New Sensation / Elizabeth Langland
  • Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in / Susan Zieger
  • Ouida / Jane Jordan
  • Under Two Flags / Natalie Schroeder, Ronald A Schroeder
  • Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood / Andrew Mangham
  • Mrs. Henry Wood, / Marlene Tromp
  • Sheridan Le Fanu / Anna Maria Jones
  • Rhoda Broughton / Tamar Heller
  • Charles Reade / Tom Bragg
  • Ideologically Challenging: Florence Marryat and Sensation Fiction / Greta Depledge
  • Edmund Hodgson Yates / Andrew Radford
  • Sensational Variations on the Domestic Romance: Charlotte M. Brame and Mary Cecil Hay in the / Graham Law
  • Amelia B. Edwards / Anne-Marie Beller
  • Dora Russell / Janice M Allan
  • Short Fiction / Brittany Roberts
  • Topics in Scholarship. Critical Responses to Sensation / Deborah Wynne
  • Gender and Sensation / Emily Allen
  • Queer Sensation / Ross G Forman
  • Class and Race in Sensation Fiction / Patrick Brantlinger
  • The Empire and Sensation / Lillian Nayder
  • Sensation Fiction and Religion / Mark Knight
  • Sensation and Science / Susan David Bernstein
  • Medicine and Sensation / Meegan Kennedy
  • Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction / Martha Stoddard Holmes, Mark Mossman
  • The Law and Sensation / Jane Jordan
  • Sensation and Detection / Heather Milton
  • ₃Come Buy, Come Buy₄: Sensation Fiction in the Context of Consumer and Commodity Culture / Kimberly Harrison
  • Sensation and Illustration / Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Realism of the Sensation Novel / Sophia Andres
  • After Sensation: Legacies. The Legacy of Sensation Fiction: Bodily Power in the New Woman Novel / Molly Youngkin
  • Corelli's Religious Trilogy:, and / R Brandon Kershner
  • Realism after Sensation: Meredith, Hardy, Gissing / Tabitha Sparks
  • Aestheticism and Sensation / Talia Schaffer
  • Neo-Victorian and Pastiche / Grace Moore
  • Index.
  • pt. 1. Before sensation, 1830-1860
  • pt. 2. Reading individual authors and texts, 1860-1880
  • pt. 3. Topics in scholarship
  • pt. 4. After sensation : legacies.