LEADER 03092nam 22004815 450 001 9910855392803321 005 20240627175858.0 010 $a9783031498343 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-49834-3 035 $a(CKB)31801403200041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31319605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31319605 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-49834-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931801403200041 100 $a20240425d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSensation Fiction and Modernity $eThe Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain /$fby James Aaron Green 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (235 pages) 311 08$a9783031498336 327 $a1: Introduction -- 2: ?Straight through those clear blue eyes into his soul?: dreams of transparency in mary elizabeth braddon?s the trail of the serpent (1860) -- 3: ?The curse that has always followed us?: (dis)inheriting the past in joseph sheridan le fanu?s wylder?s hand (1864) -- 4: ?Short-spanned living creatures?: evolutionary perspectives and the fate of progress in rhoda broughton?s not wisely, but too well (1867) -- 5: ?Can I say I believe in it too??: hesitation and the difficulties of decision in wilkie collins?s armadale (1866) -- 6: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction also depicts modernity in the form of intellectual and moral discontinuity. Through closely historicist readings of novels by Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Rhoda Broughton, this book traces how discontinuity is manifested in the suspenseful plotting of these fictions, through which readers are challenged to revise conventional assumptions about the world and adopt more contingent perspectives. The study demonstrates that reading for this sense of modernity does not merely uncover the genre's engagements with various mid-century contexts. More fundamentally, it broaches a new sense of the function and significance of sensation fiction: the acclimatization of its readers to the discontinuities of modern existence. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 676 $a823.8093 700 $aGreen$b James Aaron$01739318 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910855392803321 996 $aSensation Fiction and Modernity$94163297 997 $aUNINA