Wilkie Collins and other sensation novelists : walking the moral hospital

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Wilkie Collins and other sensation novelists : walking the moral hospital

Nicholas Rance

Macmillan, 1991

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 186-193

Includes index

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ISBN 9780333537459

内容説明

Recent critical interest in the sensation novel, which dominated the literary market in England in the 1860s, has been primarily preoccupied with images of women and issues of gender in the fiction. These are also concerns here, but "Walking the Moral Hospital" 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. There is a spectacular contrast between the "depth of effect and shock of incident" in the fiction, which the contemporary novelist and critic, Margaret Oliphant, thought an appropriate literary response to "an age which has turned to be one of events", and the propriety of the domestic saga, the preceding vogue in fiction, which had flourished in the late 1840s and 1850s and been displaced by the sensation novel. The demise of sensation fiction after a mere decade, and in Collins' case, perhaps paradoxically, the impulse to have missions to which Swinburne attributed his "perdition" as a novelist, are 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.

目次

  • Dim oblivion of right and wrong
  • innocent criminals: the domestic saga
  • sensation and supernaturalism
  • the sensation school
  • "The Woman in White" and "No Name": the sensation novel and self-help
  • mad today and sane tomorrow: the sensation novel and the asylum
  • Wilkie having missions: the demise of sensation fiction
  • conclusion - Sheridan Le Fanu and sensation fiction.
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: pbk ISBN 9781349119660

内容説明

Sensation fiction dominated the literary market in the 1860s. This book focuses on the roots of its emergence and demise, relating its rise to the crisis of faith in the ideology of self-help. Rance has also written "The Historical Novel and Popular Politics in 19th century England".

目次

  • Dim oblivion of right and wrong
  • innocent criminals: the domestic saga
  • sensation and supernaturalism
  • the sensation school
  • "The Woman in White" and "No Name": the sensation novel and self-help
  • mad today and sane tomorrow: the sensation novel and the asylum
  • Wilkie having missions: the demise of sensation fiction
  • conclusion - Sheridan Le Fanu and sensation fiction.

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