{"product_id":"victorian-sensations-essays-on-a-scandalous-genre-9780814252666","title":"Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWildly popular with Victorian readers, sensation fiction was condemned by most critics for scandalous content and formal features that deviated from respectable Victorian realism. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictorian Sensations\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection to examine sensation fiction as a whole, showing it to push genre boundaries and resist easy classification. Comprehensive in scope, this collection includes twenty original essays employing various critical approaches to cover a range of topics that will interest many readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to well-known novels such as \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/i\u003e by Wilkie Collins and \u003ci\u003eLady Audley's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, this volume addresses other works by Collins and Braddon as well as those of Sheridan Le Fanu, Rhoda Broughton, Charles Reade, Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood, and perhaps surprisingly, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. Sensation literature, once considered one-dimensionally as a vehicle for contrived, plot-driven stories of mystery and intrigue, is shown here as a multi-faceted formal and ideological hybrid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays are organized thematically into three sections: issues of the genre; sensational representations of gender and sexuality; and the texts' complex readings of diverse social and cultural phenomena such as class, race, and empire. The introduction reviews the critical reception of sensation fiction to situate these new essays within a larger scholarly context. \u003ci\u003eVictorian Sensations\u003c\/i\u003e aims to further previous efforts to recognize sensation fiction as an integral part of Victorian literature and not as the subgenre that it has too long been considered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection's broad scope indicates the breadth and complexity of the genre itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kimberly Harrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814252666\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKimberly Harrison is an associate professor of English at Florida International University, Miami. Richard Fantina is an instructor of English at the University of Miami, Coral Gables.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40180673740915,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0659e957-411e-455f-9285-76a795b24ecd.jpg?v=1655471819","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/victorian-sensations-essays-on-a-scandalous-genre-9780814252666","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}