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The Nineteenth-century sensation novel / Lyn Pickett.
Van Pelt Library PR878.S44 P95 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pykett, Lyn.
- Series:
- Writers and their work
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Sensationalism in literature.
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889--Criticism and interpretation.
- Collins, Wilkie.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 170 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tavistock, U.K. : Northcote : British Council, 2011.
- Summary:
- A specialist in fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, Pykett (emerita, English, Aberystwyth U., Wales) updates and expands her 1994 The Sensation Novel from The Woman in White to The Moonstone. The new edition takes into account new critical studies of particular works and authors; a broadening of the academic definition of the genre; and the fresh audiences brought by television, radio, film, and stage adaptations. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- The sensation phenomenon
- Wilkie Collins
- The women's sensation novel
- Aftershocks: the sensation legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references: (pages 155-165) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0746312121
- 9780746312124
- OCLC:
- 679922823
- Publisher Number:
- 99948069685
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