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The Maniac in the Cellar : Sensation Novels of the 1860s /
Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
713 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Sensation Paradox
- 2. The Sensation Novel and Victorian Theories of Fiction
- 3. Charles Reade and the Breakdown of Melodrama
- 4. The Wickedness of Woman: M. E. Braddon and Mrs. Henry Wood
- 5. Wilkie Collins: The Triumph of the Detective
- 6. Influences of the Sensation Novel
- Notes
- Index