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Victorian Sensations

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Author : Kimberly Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2006

Victorian Sensations written by Kimberly Harrison and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Collections categories.

"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.

Victorian Sensation Fiction

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Author : Andrew Radford
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2008-12-15

Victorian Sensation Fiction written by Andrew Radford and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

A concise and lucid overview of the key criticism -- from early reviews to twenty-first commentaries -- surrounding the popular genre of Victorian "sensation" fiction.

Victorian Sensational Fiction

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Author : Richard Fantina
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 2010-01-29

Victorian Sensational Fiction written by Richard Fantina and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-29 with Fiction categories.

Sensation fiction emerged in the 1860s, and immediately generated alarm as many critics viewed the genre as a threat to prevailing Victorian values. Charles Reade, along with Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, was among the most well-known sensation novelists. With its explicit critique of power relations in the fields of medicine, criminal justice, and sexual mores, Reade’s work anticipates Michel Foucault’s theories elaborated a century later. Reade’s work also provides rare glimpses of alternative sexualities and gender identities in nineteenth-century fiction. This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in literary and cultural theory.

Victorian Sensations

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Author : Kimberly Harrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-10-15

Victorian Sensations written by Kimberly Harrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

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. In addition to well-known novels such as The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, this volume addresses other works by Collins and Braddon as well as those of Sheridan Le Fanu, Rhoda Broughton, Charles Reade, Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood, and perhaps surprisingly, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. Sensation literature, once considered one-dimensionally as a vehicle for contrived, plot-driven stories of mystery and intrigue, is shown here as a multi-faceted formal and ideological hybrid. 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 critical reception of sensation fiction to situate these new essays within a larger scholarly context. Victorian Sensations aims to further previous efforts to recognize sensation fiction as an integral part of Victorian literature and not as the subgenre that it has too long been considered. The collection's broad scope indicates the breadth and complexity of the genre itself.

Deadly Encounters

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Author : Richard D. Altick
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-10-29

Deadly Encounters written by Richard D. Altick and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-29 with Literary Criticism categories.

In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to claim the young man's inheritance. The press covered both cases with thoroughness and enthusiasm, narrating events in a style worthy of a popular novelist, and including lengthy passages of testimony. Not only did they report rumor as well as what seemed to be fact, they speculated about the credibility of witnesses, assessed character, and decided guilt. The public was enthralled. Richard D. Altick demonstrates that these two cases, as they were presented in the British press, set the tone for the Victorian "age of sensation." The fascination with crime, passion, and suspense has a long history, but it was in the 1860s that this fascination became the vogue in England. Altick shows that these crimes provided literary prototypes and authenticated extraordinary passion and incident in fiction with the "shock of actuality." While most sensational melodramas and novels were by lesser writers, authors of the stature of Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, and Wilkie Collins were also influenced by the spirit of the age and incorporated sensational elements in their work.

Varieties Of Women S Sensation Fiction 1855 1890 Sensationalism And The Sensation Debate

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Varieties Of Women S Sensation Fiction 1855 1890 Sensationalism And The Sensation Debate written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with English fiction categories.

Victorian Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Victorian Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with English literature categories.

The History Of Ballarat

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Author : William Bramwell Withers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887

The History Of Ballarat written by William Bramwell Withers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Ballarat (Vic.) categories.

A Little Bit Of Luck

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Author : Richard Daniel Altick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

A Little Bit Of Luck written by Richard Daniel Altick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Richard Altick, the world-renowned scholar, whom the Washington Post says "probably knows more about Victorian Britain than anyone else" has published his memoir. The author of The English Common Reader, The Scholar Adventurers, and The Shows of London, remembers his prolific career with characteristic wit and telling anecdotes.

Victorian Sensation

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Author : Michael Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2004-10-04

Victorian Sensation written by Michael Diamond and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-04 with Social Science categories.

'Victorian Sensation' sheds light on the Victorians' fascination with celebrity culture and their obsession with gruesome and explicit reportage of murders and sex scandals. With a vivid cast of characters, ranging from the serial poisoner William Palmer, to Charles Dickens, Jumbo the Elephant, distinguished politicians and even the Queen herself, this passionate analysis of the period reveals how the reporting methods of our own popular media have their origins in the Victorian press, and shows that sensation was as integral a part of society in the nineteenth century as it is today.