Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists
Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists

Author: Nicholas Rance

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780838634448

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This work adopts a fresh approach by relating the vogue in the 1860s for sensation fiction to a specific phase of a crisis of faith in the bourgeois ideology of self-help. The demise of sensation fiction after a mere decade is then associated with a returned sense in the 1870s of the durability of the status quo, and the temporary revival of a moralism, which had seemed in a terminal condition in the 1860s.

Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction
Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction

Author: Kevin A. Morrison

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-10-29

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1476669031

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This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.

A Literature of Their Own
A Literature of Their Own

Author: Elaine Showalter

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0691221960

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When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A classic of feminist criticism, its impact continues to be felt today. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception and a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.