Dickens, Reade, and Collins Sensation Novelists : A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England

Studies the shift in the theory of novel writing from a focus on biography and esthetics to narrative fiction during the Victorian era as the audience of the novel widened from the educated elite to the common person. Preface Contents Chapter I. Preliminary: The Sensational in Modern English Prose Fiction Chapter II. The Background of Sensationalism Chapter III. The School of Dickens Chapter IV. The Native Tradition of Terrorism in the English Novel Bibliography