03956nam 2200829 450 991082234280332120191205163742.01-5261-3627-91-5261-2658-310.7765/9781526126580(CKB)4340000000261684(MiAaPQ)EBC5326187(StDuBDS)EDZ0001929077(Au-PeEL)EBL5326187(CaPaEBR)ebr11532718(OCoLC)1028803922(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78489(UkMaJRU)992979792025301631(DE-B1597)660498(DE-B1597)9781526126580(EXLCZ)99434000000026168420191205h20182018 fy 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCreating character theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction /Helena IfillManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2018.©20181 online resource (240 pages) digital file(s)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)English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismPersonality in literatureCharacters and characteristics in literatureLiteraturemupLiterary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900bicsscLITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralbisachIrelandthemaCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. Degeneration.Education.Heredity.Insanity.Mary Elizabeth Braddon.Responsibility.Self-Determinism.Sensation novels.Wilkie Collins.Willpower.English fictionHistory and criticism.Personality in literature.Characters and characteristics in literature.LiteratureLiterary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900LITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralIreland823.8Ifill Helena1665267UkMaJRUBOOK9910822342803321Creating character4023768UNINA