Victorian sensations : essays on a scandalous genre

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Label

Victorian sensations : essays on a scandalous genre

Title remainder

essays on a scandalous genre

Statement of responsibility

ed. by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina

Contributor

• Fantina, Richard
• Harrison, Kimberly, 1969-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Sensationalism in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.809353

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PR878.S44

LC item number

V53 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography