Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction

• Main Author: Cox, Jessica (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Fiction.; Contemporary Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, tracing their influence on...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction" The Victorian Sensation Novel: Afterlives and Legacies
• Part I: Reinventing Victorian Popular Fiction: Genre and Neo-Sensationalism
• 2. Neo-Gothic Sensations
• 3. Criminal Sensations: Neo-Victorian Detectives
• 4. Repackaging the Sensation Novel: Neo-Victorian Young Adult Fiction
• Part II: Neo-Sensational Tropes
• 5. (Re)Presenting (Sexual) Trauma
• 6. Excavating the Victorians: Digging Up the Past in the Neo-Sensation Novel
• 7. Sensational Legacies: Tropes of Inheritance
• 8. Conclusion: 'Substantial Ghosts': Sensational Continuities and Legacies.