A Companion to Sensation Fiction (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Book 133)

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 Front Matter -- Introduction / Pamela K Gilbert -- Before Sensation, 1830 b6 s1860. b3 sThe Aristocracy and Upholstery b4 s: The Silver Fork Novel / Ellen Miller Casey -- Newgate Novels / Edward Jacobs, Manuela Mour̂o -- b3 sLiterature of the Kitchen b4 s: Cheap Serial Fiction of the 1840s and 1850s / Andrew King -- Melodrama / Rohan McWilliam -- Sensation Theater / Heidi J Holder -- Gothic / Patrick R O'Malley -- Realism and Sensation Fiction / Daniel Brown -- Poetry and Sensation / Kirstie Blair -- Reading Individual Authors and Texts, 1860 b6 s1880. Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Lyn Pykett -- Lady Audley's Secret: How She Do It? Sensation Fiction's Technologically Minded Villainesses / Louise Lee -- b3 sGoing in a Little for the Subjective b4 s: Textual and Moral Performance in / Richard Nemesvari -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon's / Amy J Robinson -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon's / Anne-Marie Beller -- Wilkie Collins and Risk / Daniel Martin -- and the New Sensation / Elizabeth Langland -- Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in / Susan Zieger -- Ouida / Jane Jordan -- Under Two Flags / Natalie Schroeder, Ronald A Schroeder -- Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood / Andrew Mangham -- Mrs. Henry Wood, / Marlene Tromp -- Sheridan Le Fanu / Anna Maria Jones -- Rhoda Broughton / Tamar Heller -- Charles Reade / Tom Bragg -- Ideologically Challenging: Florence Marryat and Sensation Fiction / Greta Depledge -- Edmund Hodgson Yates / Andrew Radford -- Sensational Variations on the Domestic Romance: Charlotte M. Brame and Mary Cecil Hay in the / Graham Law -- Amelia B. Edwards / Anne-Marie Beller -- Dora Russell / Janice M Allan -- Short Fiction / Brittany Roberts -- Topics in Scholarship. Critical Responses to Sensation / Deborah Wynne -- Gender and Sensation / Emily Allen -- Queer Sensation / Ross G Forman -- Class and Race in Sensation Fiction / Patrick Brantlinger -- The Empire and Sensation / Lillian Nayder -- Sensation Fiction and Religion / Mark Knight -- Sensation and Science / Susan David Bernstein -- Medicine and Sensation / Meegan Kennedy -- Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction / Martha Stoddard Holmes, Mark Mossman -- The Law and Sensation / Jane Jordan -- Sensation and Detection / Heather Milton -- b3 sCome Buy, Come Buy b4 s: Sensation Fiction in the Context of Consumer and Commodity Culture / Kimberly Harrison -- Sensation and Illustration / Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge -- The Pre-Raphaelite Realism of the Sensation Novel / Sophia Andres -- After Sensation: Legacies. The Legacy of Sensation Fiction: Bodily Power in the New Woman Novel / Molly Youngkin -- Corelli's Religious Trilogy:, and / R Brandon Kershner -- Realism after Sensation: Meredith, Hardy, Gissing / Tabitha Sparks -- Aestheticism and Sensation / Talia Schaffer -- Neo-Victorian and Pastiche / Grace Moore -- Index The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789.: Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship; Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied; Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the lite