LEADER 03788oam 22007454a 450 001 9910467770003321 005 20211004152544.0 010 $a1-5261-3627-9 010 $a1-5261-2658-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000261684 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5326187 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001929077 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5326187 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11532718 035 $a(OCoLC)1028803922 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78489 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000261684 100 $a20180111h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCreating character$eTheories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction /$fHelena Ifill 210 1$aManchester, [England] :$cManchester University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (232 pages) 225 0 $aInterventions : Rethinking the Nineteenth Century 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5261-2659-1 311 $a1-78499-513-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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 -- Index 330 8 $aThis book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of seven sensation novels explore how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of 'nature' versus 'nurture', Braddon and Collins show the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the intersections of established and developing, conservative and radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity could be made and modified. 410 0$aInterventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series) 606 $aPersonality in literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01058760 606 $aEnglish fiction$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00910817 606 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00852295 606 $aSensationsroman$2gnd 606 $aLiteratur$2gnd 606 $aIdentita?tsfindung$gMotiv$2gnd 606 $aEnglisch$2gnd 606 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature 606 $aPersonality in literature 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPersonality in literature. 615 0$aEnglish fiction. 615 0$aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 615 0$aSensationsroman 615 0$aLiteratur 615 0$aIdentita?tsfindung 615 0$aEnglisch 615 0$aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 615 0$aPersonality in literature. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.8 700 $aIfill$b Helena$0986478 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467770003321 996 $aCreating character$92254479 997 $aUNINA