The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
ISBN-10
0521760747
ISBN-13
9780521760744
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 17th, 2013
Print length
253 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.70 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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This volume offers a pithy yet comprehensive account of the sensation novel, including books by Wilkie Collins, Mrs Henry Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It touches on major themes and contexts, and has a broad appeal to enthusiasts of the Victorian novel at all levels.
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.
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