Victorian Sensation Fiction

✏Book Title : Victorian Sensation Fiction
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✏Publisher : Macmillan International Higher Education
✏Release Date : 2008-11-14
✏Pages : 232
✏ISBN : 9781137287823
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Victorian Sensation Fiction Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Victorian Sensations
✏Author : Kimberly Harrison
✏Publisher : Ohio State University Press
✏Release Date : 2006-01-01
✏Pages : 278
✏ISBN : 9780814210314
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Victorian Sensations Book Summary : "Wildly popular with Victorian readers, sensation fiction was condemned by most critics for scandalous content and formal features that deviated from respectable Victorian realism. Victorian Sensations is the first collection to examine sensation fiction as a whole, showing it to push genre boundaries and resist easy classification. Comprehensive in scope, this collection includes twenty original essays employing various critical approaches to cover a range of topics that will interest many readers." "Essays are organized thematically into three sections: issues of genre; sensational representations of gender and sexuality; and the texts' complex readings of diverse social and cultural phenomena such as class, race, and empire. The introduction reviews the critical reception of sensation fiction to situate these new essays within a larger scholarly context."--BOOK JACKET.

✏Book Title : Victorian Sensation Fiction
✏Author : Jessica Cox
✏Publisher : Red Globe Press
✏Release Date : 2019-05-08
✏Pages : 190
✏ISBN : 1137471719
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Victorian Sensation Fiction Book Summary : 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.

✏Book Title : Neo Victorianism and Sensation Fiction
✏Author : Jessica Cox
✏Publisher : Springer Nature
✏Release Date : 2019-11-11
✏Pages : 251
✏ISBN : 9783030292904
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Neo Victorianism and Sensation Fiction Book Summary : 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.

✏Book Title : A Companion to Sensation Fiction
✏Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
✏Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
✏Release Date : 2011-06-20
✏Pages : 680
✏ISBN : 9781444342215
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏A Companion to Sensation Fiction Book Summary : 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

✏Book Title : Violent Women and Sensation Fiction
✏Author : A. Mangham
✏Publisher : Springer
✏Release Date : 2007-08-16
✏Pages : 247
✏ISBN : 9780230286993
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Violent Women and Sensation Fiction Book Summary : 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.

✏Book Title : Attention Span and Writing Process in Victorian Sensation Novels and Their Theatrical Adaptations
✏Author : Leilani Serafin
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2017
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 1369795599
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Attention Span and Writing Process in Victorian Sensation Novels and Their Theatrical Adaptations Book Summary : Although the novel is often considered the dominant literary form during the Victorian period, it evolved in the context of the theater. This dissertation examines the popular genre of sensation fiction in relation to the many theatrical adaptations that sensation novels inspired. Sensation novels are famous for plot devices involving mistaken identity and character doubles, but little attention has been devoted to their generic double, the theatrical adaptation. Because theatrical adaptations generated income for their adaptors, novelists and other dramatic adaptors often competed for profits, making the production of these adaptations an intriguing mirror of the contentious doubling and mistaken identity in sensation novels themselves. Thus, this dissertation argues that the specific questions of identity endemic to the plots of sensation novels reflect the issues of creation, imitation, and adaptation that govern their production. To explore this mirroring process, I read three best-selling sensation novels in the context of their theatrical adaptations: Charles Reade’s It Is Never Too Late to Mend, Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, and Ouida’s Under Two Flags. In each of these novels and its theatrical context, I find an extended discussion of a unique construction of Victorian attention span—a relevant concept for a discussion of theatrical adaptation, given the distinct types of attention called for by a novel versus a play. It Is Never Too Late to Mend and the two plays associated with it advance the attentive model of industriousness to argue that focused attention can turn thieves (the thieves in the texts as well as the literary thieves who illegally adapted Reade’s novel) into authors, thereby solidifying intellectual property rights. Opposing Reade’s ideal of industriousness, Lady Audley’s Secret explores attentive patterns associated with bewilderment and absorption, Braddon’s process of juggling three simultaneous writing projects involves a type of authorial multitasking that ironizes Robert Audley’s bewildered absorption. Prominent lawsuits concerning both the dramatic adaptations of It Is Never Too Late to Mend and Lady Audley’s Secret further demonstrate the authorial multitasking that interfered with conventional ideals of focused literary authorship. Finally, Ouida structures Under Two Flags around the Renaissance concept of sprezzatura, a performative nonchalance that overlaps intriguingly with Victorian theories of “natural acting.” Each of these sensation novels advances a unique vision of attention span, and this dissertation examines how each of these attentive modes—industriousness, bewilderment, absorption, and sprezzatura—interacts with the contexts under which the novels were produced and adapted for the theater.

✏Book Title : From Wollstonecraft to Stoker
✏Author : Marilyn Brock
✏Publisher : McFarland
✏Release Date : 2014-01-10
✏Pages : 220
✏ISBN : 9780786454402
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏From Wollstonecraft to Stoker Book Summary : This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Brontë. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.

✏Book Title : The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction
✏Author : Andrew Mangham
✏Publisher : Cambridge University Press
✏Release Date : 2013-10-17
✏Pages : 253
✏ISBN : 9780521760744
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction Book 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.

✏Book Title : Victorian Sensational Fiction
✏Author : R. Fantina
✏Publisher : Springer
✏Release Date : 2009-12-21
✏Pages : 205
✏ISBN : 9780230102156
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Victorian Sensational Fiction Book Summary : This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade, who was among the best-known authors of the sensation fiction of the 1860s, as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in literary and cultural theory.

✏Book Title : Feeling Clumsy Feeling Alien
✏Author : Gracie M. Bain
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2019
✏Pages : 120
✏ISBN : OCLC:1114335599
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Feeling Clumsy Feeling Alien Book Summary : "Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction" explores the interactions between the shock of reading sensation fiction and the affective potential of the genre using Sara Ahmed's definition of the killjoy and the affect alien. The sensation genre, as explained in its name, is potentially useful when thinking about affective ties in the Victorian period. The first chapter, "Tracing Sensations: Finding and Following the Killjoy" explores the affective footwork that readers of sensation fiction are asked to perform in their sympathetic process with the female villains and fallen heroines. Affective tools employed by sensational fiction create an understanding between the reader and the villains that occupied most of sensation fiction. The second chapter, "The Fallen Heroine: Feeling Injustice" discusses a sensational villain that perhaps more easily encourages sympathy: Ellen Wood's Lady Isabel Vane turned Lady Carlyle in East Lynne. Chapter three, "The Villain: Feeling for the Enemy," questions the easily defined femme fatale category of sensation novels and argues that Lady Audley's actions in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret can be attributed to her role as someone that affects the wrong way. Readers cannot entirely sympathize with Lady Audley or Isabel Vane, but they can recognize themselves within the frustrations and extenuating circumstances that create an environment in which the character feels the only course of action is seduction or murder. The affective possibility of Lady Audley and Isabel Vane relies on the proximity of the reader to the character's situations. To navigate affect is to navigate affective orientation and proximity, and sensation fiction provides the opportunity for disorientation and inappropriate proximity.

✏Book Title : Sensational Deviance
✏Author : Heidi Logan
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2018-07-06
✏Pages : 268
✏ISBN : 9780429843471
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Sensational Deviance Book Summary : Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of disability and to new developments in physiological and psychiatric knowledge. The depictions of disabled characters in sensation fiction frequently deviate strongly from typical depictions of disability in mainstream Victorian literature, undermining its stigmatized positioning as tragic deficit, severe limitation, or pathology. Close readings of nine individual novels situate their investigations of physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities against the period’s disability discourses and interest in senses, perception, stimuli, the nervous system, and the hereditability of impairments. The importance of moral insanity and degeneration theory within sensation fiction connect the genre with criminal anthropology, suggesting the genre’s further significance in the light of the later emergence of eugenics, psychoanalysis, and genetics.

✏Book Title : Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers
✏Author : Anne-Marie Beller
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2015-09-07
✏Pages : 125
✏ISBN : 9781317754015
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers Book Summary : Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding recognition of that genre’s importance in the literary debates, trends, and wider cultural practices of the period. Yet until very recently, work on sensationalism has focused on a narrow range of authors and works, with Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood retaining the preponderance of critical attention. This collection examines the fiction of ten women sensation writers who were immensely popular in the Victorian period but remain critically neglected today – writers such as Annie Edwardes, M.C. Houstoun, Annie French, Dora Russell and others. The Victorian sensation novel was categorically associated with women by Victorian reviewers and this collection extends our current understanding of this sub-genre by showing that female sensation writers were often sophisticated in their textual strategies, employing a range of metafictional techniques and narrative innovations. By moving beyond the novelists who have come to represent the genre, this book presents a fuller, more nuanced, understanding of the spectrum of writing that constructed the concept of ‘sensationalism’ for Victorian readers and critics. The book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.

✏Book Title : Creating Character
✏Author : Helena Ifill
✏Publisher : Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
✏Release Date : 2018
✏Pages : 232
✏ISBN : 1784995134
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Creating Character Book Summary : Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction

✏Book Title : Appearance and Reality in Victorian Sensation Novels Wilkie Collins s The Woman in White and Mary Elizabeth Braddon s Lady Audley s Secret
✏Author : 閻令琬
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2019
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : OCLC:1157890771
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Appearance and Reality in Victorian Sensation Novels Wilkie Collins s The Woman in White and Mary Elizabeth Braddon s Lady Audley s Secret Book Summary :

✏Book Title : George Alfred Lawrence and the Victorian Sensation Novel
✏Author : Gordon H. Fleming
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1952
✏Pages : 48
✏ISBN : UCAL:C2880412
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏George Alfred Lawrence and the Victorian Sensation Novel Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Some Mid Victorian Thrillers
✏Author : Peter David Edwards
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1971
✏Pages : 34
✏ISBN : UCAL:B3499581
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Some Mid Victorian Thrillers Book Summary :

✏Book Title : The Maniac in the Cellar
✏Author : Winifred Hughes
✏Publisher : Princeton University Press
✏Release Date : 2014-07-14
✏Pages : 224
✏ISBN : 9781400855476
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Maniac in the Cellar Book Summary : Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its practitioners, and its implications, and reveals its significance both for the mid-Victorian consciousness and for the writers and readers of today. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

✏Book Title : The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine
✏Author : D. Wynne
✏Publisher : Springer
✏Release Date : 2001-07-11
✏Pages : 202
✏ISBN : 9780230596726
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine Book Summary : Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.

✏Book Title : Queer Doubles
✏Author : Marc Ducusin
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2017
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : OCLC:979422860
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Queer Doubles Book Summary : "By representing deviant gender and sexuality through the structural principle of doubling, Victorian sensation novels from the 1860s and 1870s anticipate the English branch of sexology that emerged in the 1880s. As critics such as Winifred Hughes have shown, doubled identities--whether disguised, exchanged, confused, mistaken, mirrored, opposed, or divided--characterise the sensation genre, including its treatment of gender ambiguity and same-sex bonds. Dualistic structures likewise underlie sexological concepts of sexual inversion and same-sex desire, which conflated what we now consider the separate categories of gender identity and sexual orientation. Modern critics have demonstrated how Victorian periodical reviewers constructed sensation fiction as the deviant oppositional "double" of the dominant realist novel; in a different way, my dissertation construes the genre as also the double of sexology, not only for their shared concerns with non-normative gender behaviour and sexual desire, but also because of English sexology's close ties with literary culture. A study of doubles in major Victorian sensation novels thus illuminates the conversant discourses of sensation fiction and sexology, and how the former contributed to the emergence of the latter. The first chapter examines two early sensation novels by Mary Braddon and Ellen Wood to show how gender-transgressive female protagonists who double their own identities are punished in the narrative for exposing the construction of normative femininity. The second chapter analyses novels by Charles Reade and Wilkie Collins that focus on homosocial pairings of complementary male characters to illustrate how the authors, in their lack of scientific precision, differ from sexologists, who presuppose a fixed relationship between inverted gender and same-sex attraction. The third chapter studies Thomas Hardy's first novel, Desperate Remedies, published anonymously but assumed by some critics to be the work of a woman. Hardy's intellectual kinship with major sexologist Havelock Ellis underlies the dualities of identity in his novel, which simultaneously connotes and distances itself from the sexual sciences. A brief coda considers the legacies of the sensation novel with respect to the literary depiction of gender and sexual variance.The scholarly understanding of Victorian sensation fiction has evolved from that of a minor, marginal genre to one whose subject matter reflects key anxieties of the era, particularly the instability of gender roles and relations. Yet a retroactive queer critical approach to sensation texts requires thorough historicisation by way of period notions about gender and sexual deviance. By studying English sexology alongside gender and sexual representations in the sensation novel, my work grounds its contemporary queer, feminist, and gender studies approach with a historically proximate discourse while engaging questions about genre, and thus opening up the interdisciplinary possibilities of literary analysis." --

✏Book Title : The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine
✏Author : Deborah Wynne
✏Publisher : Macmillan
✏Release Date : 2001-07-11
✏Pages : 202
✏ISBN : 0333776666
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine Book Summary : Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyzes the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week, Wynne highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.

✏Book Title : The Construction of Womanhood in Victorian Sensation Fiction 1860 70
✏Author : Abeer Zahra
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1990
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : OCLC:59929576
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Construction of Womanhood in Victorian Sensation Fiction 1860 70 Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel
✏Author : Lynn Pykett
✏Publisher : Oxford University Press
✏Release Date : 2018-08-01
✏Pages : 181
✏ISBN : 9781786946638
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel Book Summary : First published in 1994, Lyn Pykett's The Sensation Novel from The Woman in Whiteto The Moonstone charted the re-emergence into critical view of the nineteenth century fictional genre which had, in its own day, enjoyed immense popular success and given rise to heated critical and moral debates. Since the mid-1990s the sensation novel has continued to attract the attention of both general readers, critics and scholars. In the last fifteen years the sensation novel has been brought to fresh audiences in numerous new editions and in new television and radio adaptations. This revised and expanded edition, retitled The Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel, responds to these developments, taking account of recent studies of the genre, and expanding both the range of authors covered and its discussion of the authors originally included.

✏Book Title : A Companion to the Victorian Novel
✏Author : William Baker
✏Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
✏Release Date : 2002
✏Pages : 445
✏ISBN : 0313314071
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏A Companion to the Victorian Novel Book Summary : This reference is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel and its contexts. It examines the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emphasis on serialization and syndication; it looks at significant social and cultural contexts surrounding the novel; it discusses various genres, such as ghost stories, the Gothic, and detective fiction; it introduces some of the period's most important novelists; and it surveys different critical approaches and their application to the study of 19th-century fiction.

✏Book Title : Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels
✏Author : Dr Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
✏Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
✏Release Date : 2013-04-28
✏Pages : 198
✏ISBN : 9781409489825
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels Book Summary : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.

✏Book Title : Victorian Sensation
✏Author : James A. Secord
✏Publisher : University of Chicago Press
✏Release Date : 2003-09-20
✏Pages : 624
✏ISBN : 9780226158259
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Victorian Sensation Book Summary : Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of humanity. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began. In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print. Beautifully written and based on painstaking research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted. Winner of the 2002 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society

✏Book Title : The Improper Feminine
✏Author : Lyn Pykett
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2003-12-08
✏Pages : 248
✏ISBN : 9781134944828
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Improper Feminine Book Summary : The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire. By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diècle periods.

✏Book Title : The Sensation Novel
✏Author : Lyn Pykett
✏Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
✏Release Date : 1994
✏Pages : 82
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105122057818
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Sensation Novel Book Summary : A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

✏Book Title : Problem Novels
✏Author : Anna Maria Jones
✏Publisher : Ohio State University Press
✏Release Date : 2007
✏Pages : 163
✏ISBN : 9780814210536
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Problem Novels Book Summary : "In Problem Novels, Anna Maria Jones argues that, far from participating "invisibly" in disciplinary regimes, many Victorian novels articulate sophisticated theories about the role of the novel in the formation of the self. In fact, it is rare to find a Victorian novel in which questions about the danger or utility of novel reading are not embedded within the narrative. In other words, one of the stories that the Victorian novel tells, over and over again, is the story of what novels do to readers. This story occurs in moments that call attention to the reader's engagement with the text." "In chapters on Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, and George Meredith, Jones examines "problem novels" - that is, novels that both narrate and invite problematic reading as part of their theorizing of cultural production. Problem Novels demonstrates that these works posit a culturally embedded, sensationally susceptible reader and, at the same time, present a methodology for critical engagement with cultural texts. Thus, the novels theorize, paradoxically, a reader who is both unconsciously interpellated and critically empowered. And, Jones argues, it is this paradoxical construction of the unconscious/critical subject that re-emerges in the theoretical paradigms of Victorian cultural studies scholarship. Indeed, as Problem Novels shows, Victorianists' attachments to critical "detective work" closely resemble the sensational attachments that we assume shaped Victorian novel readers."--BOOK JACKET.

✏Book Title : The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction
✏Author : E. Steere
✏Publisher : Springer
✏Release Date : 2013-10-30
✏Pages : 210
✏ISBN : 9781137365262
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction Book Summary : The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.