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".

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Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

Nicholas Rance

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Book Title: Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists
Book Subtitle: Walking the Moral Hospital
Authors: Nicholas Rance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11964-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-11966-0Published: 01 January 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-11964-6Published: 18 June 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 199
Topics: Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

‘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 To-day and Sane To-morrow’: The Sensation Novel and the Asylum

‘Wilkie! Have a Mission’: The Demise of Sensation Fiction

Conclusion: Sheridan Le Fanu and Sensation Fiction

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Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

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