Violent Women And Sensation Fiction
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Violent Women and Sensation Fiction
Author | : A. Mangham |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2007-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780230286993 |
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This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century. It aims to highlight how medical, legal and literary narratives shared notions of the volatile nature of women. Mangham traces intersections between notorious legal trials, theories of female insanity, and sensation novels.
Aurora Floyd
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB10744939 |
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Victorian Sensation Fiction
Author | : Jessica Cox |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137471727 |
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Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or potentially dangerous qualities of the genre to the prolific critical attention of the present day, this Reader's Guide identifies the dominant approaches to sensation fiction and charts the critical trends of various scholarly evaluations and interpretations. With coverage spanning empire, class, sexuality and adaptation, this is the ideal companion for students of Victorian Literature looking for an introduction to the key debates surrounding sensation fiction.
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author | : Andrew Mangham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
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.
A Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author | : Pamela K. Gilbert |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 680 |
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
Neo Victorianism and Sensation Fiction
Author | : Jessica Cox |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2019-11-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030292904 |
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This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, tracing their influence on a range of genres and works, including detective fiction, YA writing, Gothic literature, and stage and screen adaptations. In doing so, it forces a reappraisal of critical understandings of neo-Victorianism in terms of its origins and meanings, as well as offering an important critical intervention in popular fiction studies. The work traces the afterlife of Victorian sensation fiction, taking in the neo-Gothic writing of Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt, contemporary popular historical detective and YA fiction by authors including Elizabeth Peters and Philip Pullman, and the literary fiction of writers such as Joanne Harris and Charles Palliser. The work will appeal to scholars and students of Victorian fiction, neo-Victorianism, and popular culture alike.
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.
Science Sexuality and Sensation Novels
Author | : L. Garrison |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-11-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780230297586 |
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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.