Author: Fortuné Du BoisgobeyPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Sensational Novels: A railway tragedy
Author: Fortuné Du BoisgobeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds
Author: Mathilde VialardPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003845347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching health and wellbeing from a humanities perspective, Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. The novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, two prominent writers of the genre, often portray characters suffering from mental illnesses commonly diagnosed at the time, among which are monomania, moral insanity, melancholia and hypochondria. By studying the fictional works of Braddon and Collins alongside medical texts from the nineteenth century, it sets out to investigate how these novels fictionally represented real mental sufferings. This book considers the different mental illnesses the characters of sensation novels develop inside and outside the home as they struggle to define their own identity against Victorian social expectations. It demonstrates how these novels fictionalised the crisis of the leisured upper classes, who spent most of their time at home, and found themselves at odds with a society that increasingly separated the domestic and working environments, while also considering the impact that a lack of a sense of domestic belonging could have on their mental health. Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds further analyses the extent to which domesticity—in its excess or lack—could afflict the mental health of Victorian men and women through the fictional representation of suicidal thoughts and acts in the novels of Braddon and Collins.
A Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author: Pamela K. GilbertPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444342215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship
The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel
Author: Lyn PykettPublisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746312121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.
Victorian Sensation
Author: Michael DiamondPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857287389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
'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.
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Literary Era
Author: Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000
Author: Nicholas DalyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521833929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. This book will be of interest to scholars of moderinism, literature and film.
Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon
Author: Daragh DownesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137518235
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like John Sutherland and Franco Moretti, this energetically revisionist volume takes advantage of recent large-scale digitisation projects that allow unprecedented access to hitherto neglected literary texts and archives. Blending lively critical engagement with individual texts and close attention to often surprising trends in the production and reception of prose fiction across the Victorian era, this book will be of use to anyone interested in re-evaluating the received meta-narratives of Victorian literary history. With an afterword by John Sutherland