Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890 Vol 4
Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890 Vol 1
Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890 Vol 5
Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890 Vol 6
Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Five 'sensation' novels are here presented complete and fully reset, along with scholarly annotation, a bibliography of 'sensation' fiction and articles contributing to contemporary debate.
Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers
Author: Anne-Marie Beller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131775400X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding recognition of that genre’s importance in the literary debates, trends, and wider cultural practices of the period. Yet until very recently, work on sensationalism has focused on a narrow range of authors and works, with Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood retaining the preponderance of critical attention. This collection examines the fiction of ten women sensation writers who were immensely popular in the Victorian period but remain critically neglected today – writers such as Annie Edwardes, M.C. Houstoun, Annie French, Dora Russell and others. The Victorian sensation novel was categorically associated with women by Victorian reviewers and this collection extends our current understanding of this sub-genre by showing that female sensation writers were often sophisticated in their textual strategies, employing a range of metafictional techniques and narrative innovations. By moving beyond the novelists who have come to represent the genre, this book presents a fuller, more nuanced, understanding of the spectrum of writing that constructed the concept of ‘sensationalism’ for Victorian readers and critics. The book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131775400X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding recognition of that genre’s importance in the literary debates, trends, and wider cultural practices of the period. Yet until very recently, work on sensationalism has focused on a narrow range of authors and works, with Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood retaining the preponderance of critical attention. This collection examines the fiction of ten women sensation writers who were immensely popular in the Victorian period but remain critically neglected today – writers such as Annie Edwardes, M.C. Houstoun, Annie French, Dora Russell and others. The Victorian sensation novel was categorically associated with women by Victorian reviewers and this collection extends our current understanding of this sub-genre by showing that female sensation writers were often sophisticated in their textual strategies, employing a range of metafictional techniques and narrative innovations. By moving beyond the novelists who have come to represent the genre, this book presents a fuller, more nuanced, understanding of the spectrum of writing that constructed the concept of ‘sensationalism’ for Victorian readers and critics. The book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.
Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels
Author: L. Garrison
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230297587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230297587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired.
A Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author: Pamela K. Gilbert
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444342215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
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 context Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444342215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
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 context Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship
Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction
Author: Kirby-Jane Hallum
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317317971
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317317971
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.
The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels
Author: Sarah Yoon
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003801366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often tolerated than admired following the establishment of professional detectives in the London Metropolitan Police Force in 1842. Through studying the historical and literary contexts between the 1840s to the 1860s, Yoon argues that the detective was seen as a suspicious, even mistrusted and disdained, figure who was nonetheless viewed as necessary to combat rising levels of crime. The detective as a literary character responded to the often contradictory values and aspirations of the middle class, representing an independent masculinity and laying claim to scientific authority. This study surveys novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Wilkie Collins, alongside lesser-known writers like William Russell, James Redding Ware (pseudonym Andrew Forrester), and William Stephens Hayward. This book contributes to the study of mid-nineteenth-century Victorian culture and connects with broader studies of the detective fiction genre.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003801366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often tolerated than admired following the establishment of professional detectives in the London Metropolitan Police Force in 1842. Through studying the historical and literary contexts between the 1840s to the 1860s, Yoon argues that the detective was seen as a suspicious, even mistrusted and disdained, figure who was nonetheless viewed as necessary to combat rising levels of crime. The detective as a literary character responded to the often contradictory values and aspirations of the middle class, representing an independent masculinity and laying claim to scientific authority. This study surveys novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Wilkie Collins, alongside lesser-known writers like William Russell, James Redding Ware (pseudonym Andrew Forrester), and William Stephens Hayward. This book contributes to the study of mid-nineteenth-century Victorian culture and connects with broader studies of the detective fiction genre.
The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction
Author: E. Steere
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137365269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137365269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.