Sensation Fiction and Modernity

The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvJames Aaron Green

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This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. More fundamentally, it broaches a new sense of the function and significance of sensation fiction: the acclimatization of its readers to the discontinuities of modern existence.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-26
Mått148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt321 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor231
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031498367

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James Aaron Green is a postdoctoral research fellow (ÖAW APART-GSK) at the University of Vienna, Austria, specializing in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular fiction. His work is published in Gothic Studies, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and Wilkie Collins in Context (2023) and is due to appear in Gothic Dreams and Nightmares (2024). His recent work in literary age and aging studies is forthcoming in the book Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War.

1: Introduction.- 2: ‘Straight through those clear blue eyes into his soul’: dreams of transparency in mary elizabeth braddon’s the trail of the serpent (1860).- 3: ‘The curse that has always followed us’: (dis)inheriting the past in joseph sheridan le fanu’s wylder’s hand (1864).- 4: ‘Short-spanned living creatures’: evolutionary perspectives and the fate of progress in rhoda broughton’s not wisely, but too well (1867).- 5: ‘Can I say I believe in it too?’: hesitation and the difficulties of decision in wilkie collins’s armadale (1866).- 6: Conclusion.