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Titre(s) : The Cambridge companion to sensation fiction [Texte imprimé] / edited by Andrew Mangham
Publication : Cambridge (GB) ; New York : Cambridge university press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-234 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge companions to topics
Lien à la collection : Cambridge companions to literature
Comprend : Sensation in the 1850s / Anne-Marie Beller ; Sensation fiction and the gothic /
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas ; Illustrating the sensation novel / Mary Elizabeth Leighton
and Lisa Surridge ; Sensation fiction on stage / Andrew Maunder ; Queering the sensation
novel / Richard Nemesvari ; The contemporary response to sensation fiction / Janice
M. Allan ; Sensation, class and the rising professionals / Mariaconcetta Constantini
; Sensation fiction, empire and the Indian Mutiny / Saverio Tomaiuolo ; Sensation
fiction, gender and identity / Tara MacDonald ; Sensation fiction, spiritualism and
the supernatural / Tatiana Kontou ; Science and sensation / Lillian Nayder ; Sensation
fiction and the publishing industry / Graham Law ; Sensation fiction and the medical
context / Pamela K. Gilbert ; Sensation fiction and the New Woman / Greta Depledge
; The sensation legacy / Lyn Pykett.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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."--Publisher's description
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Mangham, Andrew (1979-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Sensationnalisme -- Dans la littérature
Roman à sensation -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780521760744 (Hardback). - ISBN 0521760747 (Hardback). - ISBN 9780521157094
(Paperback). - ISBN 0521157099 (Paperback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437022155
Notice n° :
FRBNF43702215
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