Assessing the full range of criticism from the frequently strident early responses, through twentieth-century critical engagements, to present-day commentaries, this Guide adopts a thematic approach to explore the key issues, topics and debates typically encountered in Sensation Fiction, and the study of the genre as a whole.

'A useful overview of the main trends in criticism of the sensation novel. It is wide-ranging in its coverage and balanced in its judgements.'
- Professor Lyn Pykett, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Aberystwyth University

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Rise, Fall and Revival of Sensation Fiction
Crime and Detection
Class and Social (Im-)Propriety
Women, Gender and Feminism
Modernity, Domesticity and Race(ism)
The Mutation of Sensation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

ANDREW RADFORD is Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. His previous publications include Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time (2003) and articles on D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and E. M. Forster.