Victorian Sensations Essays on a Scandalous Genre / edited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fantina, Richard.

Harrison, Kimberly, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sensationalism in literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2006.

Contents:

"Highly flavoured dishes" and "highly seasoned garbage" : sensation in The Athenaeum / Ellen Miller Casey

"Judged by a purely literary standard" : sensation fiction, horizons of expectation, and the generic construction of Victorian realism / Richard Nemesvari

Censoring her sensationalism : Mary Elizabeth Braddon and The doctor's wife / Catherine J. Golden

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the "combination novel" : the subversion of sensational expectation in Vixen / Albert C. Sears

"Of all the horror

the foulest and most cruel" : sensation and Dickens's Oliver Twist / Diana C. Archibald

Naturalism in Charles Reade's experimental novel, Griffith Gaunt / Dianna Vitanza

Swedenborg and the disintegration of language in Sheridan le Fanu's sensation fiction / Devin P. Zuber

"That muddy, polluted flood of earthly love" : ambivalence about the body in Rhoda Broughton's Not wisely but too well / Tamar Heller

Sensational hair : gender, genre, and fetishism in the sensational decade / Galia Ofek

"What could I do?" : nineteenth-century psychology and the horrors of masculinity in The woman in white / Andrew Mangham

"Chafing at the social cobwebs" : gender and transgender in the work of Charles Reade / Richard Fantina

Women alone : Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and Rosetti's "Goblin market" / Nancy Welter

One sister's surrender : rivalry and resistance in Rhoda Broughton's Cometh up as a flower / Lindsey Faber

"Personal property at her disposal" : inheritance law, the single woman, and The moonstone / Jennifer Swartz

"I will not live in poverty and neglect" : East Lynne on the East End stage / Andrew Maunder

"The threshold of an open window" : transparency, opacity, and social boundaries in Aurora Floyd / Lillian Nayder

Sensationalizing Victorian suburbia : Wilkie Collins's Basil / Tamara S. Wagner

Political persuasion in Mary Braddon's The octoroon, or, The lily of Louisiana / Kimberly Harrison

Wilkie Collins's "Secret dictate" : The moonstone as a response to imperialist panic / Vicki Corkran Willey

Wilkie Collins's Gwilt-y conscience : gender and colonialism in Armadale / Monica M. Young-Zook.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index.

OCLC:

1083109941

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access