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Sensation Fiction and Modernity
Author | : James Aaron Green |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783031498343 |
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Sensation Fiction and Modernity
Author | : James Aaron Green |
Publsiher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-05-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 303149833X |
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This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction also depicts modernity in the form of intellectual and moral discontinuity. Through closely historicist readings of novels by Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Rhoda Broughton, this book traces how discontinuity is manifested in the suspenseful plotting of these fictions, through which readers are challenged to revise conventional assumptions about the world and adopt more contingent perspectives. The study demonstrates that reading for this sense of modernity does not merely uncover the genre's engagements with various mid-century contexts. More fundamentally, it broaches a new sense of the function and significance of sensation fiction: the acclimatization of its readers to the discontinuities of modern existence.
The Nineteenth century Sensation Novel
Author | : Lyn Pykett |
Publsiher | : Northcote House Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780746312124 |
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This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.
A Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author | : Pamela K. Gilbert |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 2011-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444342215 |
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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
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author | : Andrew Mangham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107511699 |
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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.
Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds
Author | : Mathilde Vialard |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2024-02-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781003845348 |
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Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching health and wellbeing from a humanities perspective, Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. The novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, two prominent writers of the genre, often portray characters suffering from mental illnesses commonly diagnosed at the time, among which are monomania, moral insanity, melancholia and hypochondria. By studying the fictional works of Braddon and Collins alongside medical texts from the nineteenth century, it sets out to investigate how these novels fictionally represented real mental sufferings. This book considers the different mental illnesses the characters of sensation novels develop inside and outside the home as they struggle to define their own identity against Victorian social expectations. It demonstrates how these novels fictionalised the crisis of the leisured upper classes, who spent most of their time at home, and found themselves at odds with a society that increasingly separated the domestic and working environments, while also considering the impact that a lack of a sense of domestic belonging could have on their mental health. Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds further analyses the extent to which domesticity—in its excess or lack—could afflict the mental health of Victorian men and women through the fictional representation of suicidal thoughts and acts in the novels of Braddon and Collins.
Literature Technology and Modernity 1860 2000
Author | : Nicholas Daly |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2004-02-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521833922 |
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Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. This book will be of interest to scholars of moderinism, literature and film.
Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels
Author | : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0754660346 |
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Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in fairy tales and sensation novels by authors such as George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens. In the clash between fantasy and reality, these authors create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body, and illuminates the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.