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A Companion to Sensation Fiction


A Companion to Sensation Fiction


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, Band 133 1. Aufl.

von: Pamela K. Gilbert

38,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 20.06.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781444342215
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 680

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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. <ul> <li>Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context</li> <li>Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms</li> <li>Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives</li> <li>Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature</li> <li>Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Pamela K. Gilbert</i></p> <p><b>Part I: Before Sensation, 1830–1860 </b><b>11</b></p> <p>1 “The Aristocracy and Upholstery”: The Silver Fork Novel 13<br /><i>Ellen Miller Casey</i></p> <p>2 Newgate Novels 26<br /><i>Edward Jacobs and Manuela Mourão</i></p> <p>3 “Literature of the Kitchen”: Cheap Serial Fiction of the 1840s and 1850s 38<br /><i>Andrew King</i></p> <p>4 Melodrama 54<br /><i>Rohan McWilliam</i></p> <p>5 Sensation Theater 67<br /><i>Heidi J. Holder</i></p> <p>6 Gothic 81<br /><i>Patrick R. O’Malley</i></p> <p>7 Realism and Sensation Fiction 94<br /><i>Daniel Brown</i></p> <p>8 Poetry and Sensation 107<br /><i>Kirstie Blair</i></p> <p><b>Part II: Reading Individual Authors and Texts, 1860–1880 </b><b>121</b></p> <p>9 Mary Elizabeth Braddon 123<br /><i>Lyn Pykett</i></p> <p>10 Lady Audley’s Secret: How <i>Does </i>She Do It? Sensation Fiction’s Technologically Minded Villainesses 134<br /><i>Louise Lee</i></p> <p>11 “Going in a little for the subjective”: Textual and Moral Performance in <i>The Doctor’s Wife </i>147<br /><i>Richard Nemesvari</i></p> <p>12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s <i>Aurora Floyd </i>160<br /><i>Amy J. Robinson</i></p> <p>13 Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s <i>Joshua Haggard’s Daughter </i>172<br /><i>Anne-Marie Beller</i></p> <p>14 Wilkie Collins and Risk 184<br /><i>Daniel Martin</i></p> <p>15 <i>The Woman in White </i>and the New Sensation 196<br /><i>Elizabeth Langland</i></p> <p>16 Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in <i>The Moonstone </i>208<br /><i>Susan Zieger</i></p> <p>17 Ouida 220<br /><i>Jane Jordan</i></p> <p>18 <i>Under Two Flags </i>232<br /><i>Natalie Schroeder and Ronald A. Schroeder</i></p> <p>19 Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood 244<br /><i>Andrew Mangham</i></p> <p>20 Mrs. Henry Wood, <i>East Lynne </i>257<br /><i>Marlene Tromp</i></p> <p>21 Sheridan Le Fanu 269<br /><i>Anna Maria Jones</i></p> <p>22 Rhoda Broughton 281<br /><i>Tamar Heller</i></p> <p>23 Charles Reade 293<br /><i>Tom Bragg</i></p> <p>24 Ideologically Challenging: Florence Marryat and Sensation Fiction 306<br /><i>Greta Depledge</i></p> <p>25 Edmund Hodgson Yates 319<br /><i>Andrew Radford</i></p> <p>26 Sensational Variations on the Domestic Romance: Charlotte M. Brame and Mary Cecil Hay in the <i>Family Herald </i>332<br /><i>Graham Law</i></p> <p>27 Amelia B. Edwards 349<br /><i>Anne-Marie Beller</i></p> <p>28 Dora Russell 361<br /><i>Janice M. Allan</i></p> <p>29 Short Fiction 374<br /><i>Brittany Roberts</i></p> <p><b>Part III: Topics in Scholarship </b><b>387</b></p> <p>30 Critical Responses to Sensation 389<br /><i>Deborah Wynne</i></p> <p>31 Gender and Sensation 401<br /><i>Emily Allen</i></p> <p>32 Queer Sensation 414<br /><i>Ross G. Forman</i></p> <p>33 Class and Race in Sensation Fiction 430<br /><i>Patrick Brantlinger</i></p> <p>34 The Empire and Sensation 442<br /><i>Lillian Nayder</i></p> <p>35 Sensation Fiction and Religion 455<br /><i>Mark Knight</i></p> <p>36 Sensation and Science 466<br /><i>Susan David Bernstein</i></p> <p>37 Medicine and Sensation 481<br /><i>Meegan Kennedy</i></p> <p>38 Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction 493<br /><i>Martha Stoddard Holmes and Mark Mossman</i></p> <p>39 The Law and Sensation 507<br /><i>Jane Jordan</i></p> <p>40 Sensation and Detection 516<br /><i>Heather Milton</i></p> <p>41 “Come Buy, Come Buy”: Sensation Fiction in the Context of Consumer and Commodity Culture 528<br /><i>Kimberly Harrison</i></p> <p>42 Sensation and Illustration 540<br /><i>Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge</i></p> <p>43 The Pre-Raphaelite Realism of the Sensation Novel 559<br /><i>Sophia Andres</i></p> <p><b>Part IV: After Sensation: Legacies </b><b>577</b></p> <p>44 The Legacy of Sensation Fiction: Bodily Power in the New Woman Novel 579<br /><i>Molly Youngkin</i></p> <p>45 Corelli’s Religious Trilogy: <i>Barabbas</i>, <i>The Sorrows of Satan</i>, and <i>The Master-Christian </i>591<br /><i>R. Brandon Kershner</i></p> <p>46 Realism after Sensation: Meredith, Hardy, Gissing 603<br /><i>Tabitha Sparks</i></p> <p>47 Aestheticism and Sensation 614<br /><i>Talia Schaffer</i></p> <p>48 Neo-Victorian and Pastiche 627<br /><i>Grace Moore</i></p> <p>Index 639</p>
<p>"Mapping a field still in development, the volume succeeds in imagining exceptionally varied directions for future research, and in conveying an ardent sense of collaboration." (<i>Victorian Studies</i>, Summer 2013)<br /> <br /> "All in all, <i>A Companion to Sensation Fiction</i> offers a vast critical panorama that covers almost all features and nuances of the sensational phenomenon, and also succeeds in offering clues for future approaches ... An indispensable addition to the ongoing debate on sensation fiction, and on Victorian culture at large.”  (<i>Rivista di Studi Vittoriani</i>, 1 August 2013)</p> <p>"Students will find that the collection introduces new information - issues and approaches - in straightforward language; specialists will appreciate the work as both a reference on movements within sensation literature and a thoughtful blueprint for future work in the genre.”  (<i>Choice</i>, 1 February 2012)</p>
<p><b>The Editor</b> <p><b>PAMELA K. GILBERT</b> is the Albert Brick Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Florida. She has published widely in the areas of Victorian literature, cultural studies, and the history of medicine. Her books include <i>Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels</i> (1997),<i> Mapping the Victorian Social Body</i> (2004), and <i>Cholera and Nation</i> (2008).
<p><b>A COMPANION TO SENSATION FICTION</b> <p>The Victorian era saw a huge proliferation of fiction, with novels finding the largest audience they had ever enjoyed. This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to sensation fiction, one of the most popular, and criticized, forms of the period. <p>Contributions from scholars from around the world place key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context, and bring to bear a range of perspectives to explore important related issues, including law, publishing history, poetry, theater, visual art, race, and gender. <p>Examining both the pre- and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature, this Companion is the definitive guide to a hugely influential literary movement and the major topics in its production and reception.

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