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The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine

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  • © 2001

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Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.

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'...offers significant new insights into the sensation novel and the process of serial publication.' - Choice

'The point of Deborah Wynne's persuasive book...is to remind us of how much is to be learned from looking at Victorian fiction in its earliest context.' - The Times Literary Supplement

'I suspect that this will become a standard work on Victorian sensationalism.' - Andrew Elfenbein, Studies in English Literature

'The point of Deborah Wynne's persuasive book, The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine, is to remind us of how much is to be learned from looking at Victorian fiction in its earliest context. ...[She] draws an instructive picture of the relation between these racy narratives and the journals that published them.' - Dinah Birch, Times Literary Supplement

'Deborah Wynne's engaging study of sensation fiction and magazines is a welcome addition to a growing body of work that seeks to investigate the dynamics of serialization...' - Mark W. Turner, Journal of Victorian Culture

Authors and Affiliations

  • Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Deborah Wynne

About the author

DEBORAH WYNNE is a lecturer in the Department of English at Keele University.

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