The Cambridge companion to sensation fiction / edited by Andrew Mangham.

The Cambridge companion to sensation fiction / edited by Andrew Mangham.

9780521760744 hardcover
0521760747 hardcover
9780521157094 paperback
0521157099 paperback

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

English

xvi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

PR878.S44 C36 2013

823/.809353

"In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'sensational' style, including the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood and Florence Marryat. It contains fifteen specially-commissioned essays and includes a chronology and a guide to further reading. Accessible yet rigorous, this Companion questions what influenced the shape and texture of the sensation novel, and what its repercussions were both in the nineteenth century and up to the present day." -- Publisher's description.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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