Description
Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.
About the Author
Dr Andrew Mangham is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Reading. He is the author of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture (2007).
Reviews
'... a highly refreshing study of the sensation fiction genre ... [a] well-researched and highly recommended introduction to sensation fiction.' The Gothic Imagination
'... [the] contributions are rigorously researched, thoughtful and beautifully written.' J. Greg Matthews, Reference Reviews
'Accessible yet rigorous, this Companion features thought-provoking and well documented essays by sixteen scholars who have written extensively about Sensation from a variety of critical and literary perspectives, demonstrating what influenced the shape and texture of the sensation novel, and establishing its repercussions textually as well as in stage and media adaptations.' Philip V. Allingham, Notes and Queries
'Quite effectively, the essays Mangham has commissioned represent the range and variety of approaches that sensation inspires, very few of which place authors and their works at the center. This Companion surely creates for students (and their teachers) the opportunity to understand sensation as a wide-ranging and ongoing phenomenon, in which the representation of 'the mysteries which are at our own doors,' in James's famous phrase, could make strange even the most banal facets of everyday life ...' Mary Jean Corbett, Victorian Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780521157094
Author Andrew Mangham
Format Paperback
Page Count 253
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 420g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 12mm