03788oam 22007454a 450 991046777000332120211004152544.01-5261-3627-91-5261-2658-3(CKB)4340000000261684(MiAaPQ)EBC5326187(StDuBDS)EDZ0001929077(Au-PeEL)EBL5326187(CaPaEBR)ebr11532718(OCoLC)1028803922(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78489(EXLCZ)99434000000026168420180111h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCreating characterTheories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction /Helena IfillManchester, [England] :Manchester University Press,2018.©20181 online resource (232 pages)Interventions : Rethinking the Nineteenth CenturyPreviously issued in print: 2018.1-5261-2659-1 1-78499-513-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Part I: Self-control, willpower and monomania -- 1. Basil and No Name -- 2. John Marchmont's Legacy -- Part II: Heredity and degeneration -- 3. The Lady Lisle -- 4. Armadale -- Part III: Education, environment and circumstance -- 5. Man and Wife -- 6. Lost for Love -- Conclusion -- IndexThis book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of seven sensation novels explore how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of 'nature' versus 'nurture', Braddon and Collins show the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the intersections of established and developing, conservative and radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity could be made and modified.Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)Personality in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01058760English fictionfast(OCoLC)fst00910817Characters and characteristics in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00852295SensationsromangndLiteraturgndIdentitätsfindungMotivgndEnglischgndCharacters and characteristics in literaturePersonality in literatureEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. Personality in literature.English fiction.Characters and characteristics in literature.SensationsromanLiteraturIdentitätsfindungEnglischCharacters and characteristics in literature.Personality in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.823.8Ifill Helena986478MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910467770003321Creating character2254479UNINA