Victorian Sensations Essays on a Scandalous Genre
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press
2006.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Highly flavoured dishes" and "highly seasoned garbage" : sensation in The Athenaeum / Ellen Miller Casey
- "Judged by a purely literary standard" : sensation fiction, horizons of expectation, and the generic construction of Victorian realism / Richard Nemesvari
- Censoring her sensationalism : Mary Elizabeth Braddon and The doctor's wife / Catherine J. Golden
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the "combination novel" : the subversion of sensational expectation in Vixen / Albert C. Sears
- "Of all the horror-- the foulest and most cruel" : sensation and Dickens's Oliver Twist / Diana C. Archibald
- Naturalism in Charles Reade's experimental novel, Griffith Gaunt / Dianna Vitanza
- Swedenborg and the disintegration of language in Sheridan le Fanu's sensation fiction / Devin P. Zuber
- "That muddy, polluted flood of earthly love" : ambivalence about the body in Rhoda Broughton's Not wisely but too well / Tamar Heller
- Sensational hair : gender, genre, and fetishism in the sensational decade / Galia Ofek
- "What could I do?" : nineteenth-century psychology and the horrors of masculinity in The woman in white / Andrew Mangham
- "Chafing at the social cobwebs" : gender and transgender in the work of Charles Reade / Richard Fantina
- Women alone : Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and Rosetti's "Goblin market" / Nancy Welter
- One sister's surrender : rivalry and resistance in Rhoda Broughton's Cometh up as a flower / Lindsey Faber
- "Personal property at her disposal" : inheritance law, the single woman, and The moonstone / Jennifer Swartz
- "I will not live in poverty and neglect" : East Lynne on the East End stage / Andrew Maunder
- "The threshold of an open window" : transparency, opacity, and social boundaries in Aurora Floyd / Lillian Nayder
- Sensationalizing Victorian suburbia : Wilkie Collins's Basil / Tamara S. Wagner
- Political persuasion in Mary Braddon's The octoroon, or, The lily of Louisiana / Kimberly Harrison
- Wilkie Collins's "Secret dictate" : The moonstone as a response to imperialist panic / Vicki Corkran Willey
- Wilkie Collins's Gwilt-y conscience : gender and colonialism in Armadale / Monica M. Young-Zook.
