LEADER 03517oam 22004214a 450 001 9910524660003321 005 20210915035104.0 035 $a(CKB)5280000000212645 035 $a(OCoLC)1083109941 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33860 035 $a(EXLCZ)995280000000212645 100 $a20060215d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aVictorian Sensations$eEssays on a Scandalous Genre /$fedited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina 210 1$aColumbus :$cOhio State University Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2006. 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 278 p.) 311 $a0-8142-1031-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index. 327 $a"Highly flavoured dishes" and "highly seasoned garbage" : sensation in The Athenaeum / Ellen Miller Casey -- "Judged by a purely literary standard" : sensation fiction, horizons of expectation, and the generic construction of Victorian realism / Richard Nemesvari -- Censoring her sensationalism : Mary Elizabeth Braddon and The doctor's wife / Catherine J. Golden -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the "combination novel" : the subversion of sensational expectation in Vixen / Albert C. Sears -- "Of all the horror-- the foulest and most cruel" : sensation and Dickens's Oliver Twist / Diana C. Archibald -- Naturalism in Charles Reade's experimental novel, Griffith Gaunt / Dianna Vitanza -- Swedenborg and the disintegration of language in Sheridan le Fanu's sensation fiction / Devin P. Zuber -- "That muddy, polluted flood of earthly love" : ambivalence about the body in Rhoda Broughton's Not wisely but too well / Tamar Heller -- Sensational hair : gender, genre, and fetishism in the sensational decade / Galia Ofek -- "What could I do?" : nineteenth-century psychology and the horrors of masculinity in The woman in white / Andrew Mangham -- "Chafing at the social cobwebs" : gender and transgender in the work of Charles Reade / Richard Fantina -- Women alone : Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and Rosetti's "Goblin market" / Nancy Welter -- One sister's surrender : rivalry and resistance in Rhoda Broughton's Cometh up as a flower / Lindsey Faber -- "Personal property at her disposal" : inheritance law, the single woman, and The moonstone / Jennifer Swartz -- "I will not live in poverty and neglect" : East Lynne on the East End stage / Andrew Maunder -- "The threshold of an open window" : transparency, opacity, and social boundaries in Aurora Floyd / Lillian Nayder -- Sensationalizing Victorian suburbia : Wilkie Collins's Basil / Tamara S. Wagner -- Political persuasion in Mary Braddon's The octoroon, or, The lily of Louisiana / Kimberly Harrison -- Wilkie Collins's "Secret dictate" : The moonstone as a response to imperialist panic / Vicki Corkran Willey -- Wilkie Collins's Gwilt-y conscience : gender and colonialism in Armadale / Monica M. Young-Zook. 606 $aSensationalism in literature 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSensationalism in literature. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.809353 701 $aFantina$b Richard$01139119 701 $aHarrison$b Kimberly$f1969-$01146057 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524660003321 996 $aVictorian Sensations$92686667 997 $aUNINA