The Cambridge companion to sensation fiction / edited by Andrew Mangham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mangham, Andrew, 1979- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Sensationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'sensational' style, including the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood and Florence Marryat. It contains fifteen specially-commissioned essays and includes a chronology and a guide to further reading. Accessible yet rigorous, this Companion questions what influenced the shape and texture of the sensation novel, and what its repercussions were both in the nineteenth century and up to the present day.

Contents:

Sensation in the 1850s / Anne-Marie Beller

Sensation fiction and the gothic / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Illustrating the sensation novel / Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge

Sensation fiction on stage / Andrew Maunder

Queering the sensation novel / Richard Nemesvari

The contemporary response to sensation fiction / Janice M. Allan

Sensation, class and the rising professionals / Mariaconcetta Constantini

Sensation fiction, empire and the Indian Mutiny / Saverio Tomaiuolo

Sensation fiction, gender and identity / Tara MacDonald

Sensation fiction, spiritualism and the supernatural / Tatiana Kontou

Science and sensation / Lillian Nayder

Sensation fiction and the publishing industry / Graham Law

Sensation fiction and the medical context / Pamela K. Gilbert

Sensation fiction and the New Woman / Greta Depledge

The sensation legacy / Lyn Pykett.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107496026

1107496020

9781107501621

1107501628

9780511675744

0511675747