Nicholas Rance

Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists

Walking the Moral Hospital

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work adopts a fresh approach by relating the vogue in the 1860s for sensation fiction to a specific phase of a crisis of faith in the bourgeois ideology of self-help. The demise of sensation fiction after a mere decade is then associated with a returned sense in the 1870s of the durability of the status quo, and the temporary revival of a moralism, which had seemed in a terminal condition in the 1860s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press Copublishing Division
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 148mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781611470994
• ISBN-10: 1611470994
• Artikelnr.: 35351158

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rance is senior lecturer in English literature at Middlesex Polytechnic.

Inhaltsangabe

Dim oblivion of right and wrong; innocent criminals: the domestic saga; sensation and supernaturalism; the sensation school; "The Woman in White" and "No Name": the sensation novel and self-help; mad today and sane tomorrow: the sensation novel and the asylum; Wilkie having missions: the demise of sensation fiction; conclusion - Sheridan Le Fanu and sensation fiction.