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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 i



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*1. The Sensation Paradox, pg. 1*2. The Sensation Novel and Victorian Theories of Fiction, pg. 38*3. Charles Reade and the Breakdown of Melodrama, pg. 73*4. The Wickedness of Woman: M. E. Braddon and Mrs. Henry Wood, pg. 106*5. Wilkie Collins: The Triumph of the Detective, pg. 137*6. Influences of the Sensation Novel, pg. 166*Notes, pg. 193*Index, pg. 207

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691615578, 978-0691615578
      ISBN10: 0691615578
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 i



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*1. The Sensation Paradox, pg. 1*2. The Sensation Novel and Victorian Theories of Fiction, pg. 38*3. Charles Reade and the Breakdown of Melodrama, pg. 73*4. The Wickedness of Woman: M. E. Braddon and Mrs. Henry Wood, pg. 106*5. Wilkie Collins: The Triumph of the Detective, pg. 137*6. Influences of the Sensation Novel, pg. 166*Notes, pg. 193*Index, pg. 207

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