Beth Palmer

Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture

Sensational Strategies

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings new perspectives to the study of sensation fiction in the Victorian period. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and Florence Marryat's magazines alongside their fiction to explore the self-conscious and complex ways they used sensation to re-work contemporary notions of female agency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199599110
• ISBN-10: 0199599114
• Artikelnr.: 32731191

Autorenporträt

Beth Palmer completed her doctorate at Trinity College, Oxford. She has taught at Keble College, Oxford, the University of Leeds, and is now a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: A different context for sensation: serialisation, celebrity
culture, and the feminist press
* 2: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Strong Measures'
* 3: Ellen Wood, religious feeling, and sensation
* 4: Florence Marryat on page and on stage
* 5: The New Woman, the legacies of sensation, and the press of the
1890s
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index