LEADER 03956nam 2200829 450 001 9910822342803321 005 20191205163742.0 010 $a1-5261-3627-9 010 $a1-5261-2658-3 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526126580 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(UkMaJRU)992979792025301631 035 $a(DE-B1597)660498 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526126580 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000261684 100 $a20191205h20182018 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCreating character $etheories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction /$fHelena Ifill 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) $cdigital file(s) 225 1 $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 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPersonality in literature 606 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aLiterary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$2bisach 606 $aIreland$2thema 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aDegeneration. 610 $aEducation. 610 $aHeredity. 610 $aInsanity. 610 $aMary Elizabeth Braddon. 610 $aResponsibility. 610 $aSelf-Determinism. 610 $aSensation novels. 610 $aWilkie Collins. 610 $aWillpower. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPersonality in literature. 615 0$aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aLiterary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General 615 7$aIreland 676 $a823.8 700 $aIfill$b Helena$01665267 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822342803321 996 $aCreating character$94023768 997 $aUNINA