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...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1980]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.