The Sensation Novel And The Victorian Family Magazine

Author : D. Wynne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230596726

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The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine by D. Wynne Pdf

Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.

Author : D. Wynne
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333776666

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The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine by D. Wynne Pdf

Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.

Author : Professor Deborah Wynne
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409476283

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Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel by Professor Deborah Wynne Pdf

How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture, Wynne argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied across the board to the Victorian period. Until the passing of the 1882 Married Women's Property Act, many women lacked full property rights; evidence suggests that, for women, objects often functioned not as disposable consumer products but as cherished personal property. Focusing particularly on representations of women and material culture in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Wynne shows how novelists engaged with the vexed question of women's relationships to property. Suggesting that many of the apparently insignificant items that 'clutter' the Victorian realist novel take on new meaning when viewed through the lens of women's access to material culture and the vagaries of property law, her study opens up new possibilities for interpreting female characters in Victorian fiction and reveals the complex work of 'thing culture' in literary texts.

Author : Lyn Pykett
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746312124

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The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel by Lyn Pykett Pdf

This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.

Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444342215

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A Companion to Sensation Fiction by Pamela K. Gilbert Pdf

This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship

Author : Laura C. Berry
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813934575

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The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel by Laura C. Berry Pdf

The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens's Dombey and Son, the Brontë sisters' Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family.

Author : Jessica Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137471727

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Victorian Sensation Fiction by Jessica Cox Pdf

Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or potentially dangerous qualities of the genre to the prolific critical attention of the present day, this Reader's Guide identifies the dominant approaches to sensation fiction and charts the critical trends of various scholarly evaluations and interpretations. With coverage spanning empire, class, sexuality and adaptation, this is the ideal companion for students of Victorian Literature looking for an introduction to the key debates surrounding sensation fiction.

Author : Mathilde Vialard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003845348

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Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds by Mathilde Vialard Pdf

Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching health and wellbeing from a humanities perspective, Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. The novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, two prominent writers of the genre, often portray characters suffering from mental illnesses commonly diagnosed at the time, among which are monomania, moral insanity, melancholia and hypochondria. By studying the fictional works of Braddon and Collins alongside medical texts from the nineteenth century, it sets out to investigate how these novels fictionally represented real mental sufferings. This book considers the different mental illnesses the characters of sensation novels develop inside and outside the home as they struggle to define their own identity against Victorian social expectations. It demonstrates how these novels fictionalised the crisis of the leisured upper classes, who spent most of their time at home, and found themselves at odds with a society that increasingly separated the domestic and working environments, while also considering the impact that a lack of a sense of domestic belonging could have on their mental health. Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds further analyses the extent to which domesticity—in its excess or lack—could afflict the mental health of Victorian men and women through the fictional representation of suicidal thoughts and acts in the novels of Braddon and Collins.

Author : Beth Palmer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191616648

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Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture by Beth Palmer Pdf

This book considers the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor to perform conventions of gender and genre in the Victorian period. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively) alongside their sensation fiction to explore the mutually influential strategies of authorship and editorship. The relationship between sensation's success as a popular fiction genre and its serialisation in the periodical press was not just reciprocal but also self-conscious and performative. Publishing sensation in Victorian magazines offered women writers a set of discursive strategies that they could transfer onto other cultural discourses and performances. With these strategies they could explore, enact, and re-work contemporary notions of female agency and autonomy, as well as negotiate contemporary criticism. Combining authorship and editorship gave these middle-class women exceptional control over the shaping of fiction, its production, and its dissemination. By paying attention to the ways in which the sensation genre is rooted in the press network this book offers a new, broader context for the phenomenal success of works like Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Ellen Wood's East Lynne. The book reaches back to the mid-nineteenth century to explore the press conditions initiated by figures like Charles Dickens and Mrs Beeton that facilitated the later success of these sensation writers. By looking forwards to the New Woman writers of the 1890s the book draws conclusions regarding the legacies of sensational author-editorship in the Victorian press and beyond.

Author : James Aaron Green
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031498343

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Sensation Fiction and Modernity by James Aaron Green Pdf

Author : Andrew Mangham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107511699

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The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction by Andrew Mangham Pdf

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.

Author : Dr Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409489825

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Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels by Dr Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Pdf

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.

Author : L. Garrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230297586

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Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels by L. Garrison Pdf

This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired.

Author : A. Mangham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230286993

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Violent Women and Sensation Fiction by A. Mangham Pdf

This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century. It aims to highlight how medical, legal and literary narratives shared notions of the volatile nature of women. Mangham traces intersections between notorious legal trials, theories of female insanity, and sensation novels.

Author : Catherine Delafield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317057017

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Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines by Catherine Delafield Pdf

Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and dissemination of the texts and considers how first publication affected the consumption and reception of the novel through the periodical medium. Delafield contends that a novel in volume form has been separated from its original context, that is, from the pattern of consumption and reception presented by the serial. The novel's later re-publication still bears the imprint of this serialized original, and this book’s investigation into nineteenth-century periodicals both generates new readings of the texts and reinstates those which have been lost in the reprinting process. Delafield's case studies provide evidence of the ways in which Household Words, Cornhill Magazine, Good Words, All the Year Round and Cassell's Magazine were designed for new audiences of novel readers. Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines addresses the material conditions of production, illustrates the collective and collaborative creation of the serialized novel, and contextualizes a range of texts in the nineteenth-century experience of print.