Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation

Tara MacDonald is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Idaho, USA. She is the author of The New Man, Masculinity, and Marriage in the Victorian Novel (2015), co-editor, with Anne-Marie Beller, of Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers (2014). She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction.

• AcknowledgementsSeries PrefacePreface: Centring SensationalismIntroduction: Hyperrealism and Victorian Affects 1. Immersive Reading and Sensational Emplotment 2. Morbidity and Sensational Authorship 3. Privacy and ‘Public Feeling’ in Salem Chapel and Armadale 4. Crowds and Bodily Sympathy in Wood and Clive 5. Collins, Hardy and Reade’s Sympathetic Doubles Coda: The Affective Pleasures of Reading and Not Reading Works CitedIndex

MacDonald’s work elegantly traces transpersonal affects through the narratives of well-known and little-read sensation novels. The monograph is equally well attuned to the insights of contemporary affect theory as to the minute bodily gestures and narratorial inflections of the Victorian narratives. A wonderful addition to scholarship in the field.