Helena Ifill

Creating character

Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction -- .

Produktdetails

• Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781526171818
• ISBN-10: 1526171813
• Artikelnr.: 66151108

Autorenporträt

Helena Ifill is a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Self-control, willpower and monomania 1. Basil and No
Name 2. John Marchmont's Legacy Part II: Heredity and degeneration 3. The
Lady Lisle 4. Armadale Part III: Education, environment and circumstance 5.
Man and Wife 6. Lost for Love Conclusion Index