The Maniac in the Cellar : : Sensation Novels of the 1860s / / Winifred Hughes.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1981 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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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