{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-sensation-fiction-hardback-9780521760744","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (Hardback) 9780521760744","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAccessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew Mangham (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521760744, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e253 pages, 12 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Quite effectively, the essays Mangham has commissioned represent the range and variety of approaches that sensation inspires, very few of which place authors and their works at the center. This Companion surely creates for students (and their teachers) the opportunity to understand sensation as a wide-ranging and ongoing phenomenon, in which the representation of 'the mysteries which are at our own doors,' in James's famous phrase, could make strange even the most banal facets of everyday life …' Mary Jean Corbett, Victorian Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'sensational' style, including the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood and Florence Marryat. It contains fifteen specially-commissioned essays and includes a chronology and a guide to further reading. Accessible yet rigorous, this Companion questions what influenced the shape and texture of the sensation novel, and what its repercussions were both in the nineteenth century and up to the present day.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Andrew Mangham\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sensation in the 1850s Anne-Marie Beller\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sensation fiction and the gothic Laurence Talairach-Vielmas\u003cbr\u003e 3. Illustrating the sensation novel Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sensation fiction on stage Andrew Maunder\u003cbr\u003e 5. Queering the sensation novel Richard Nemesvari\u003cbr\u003e 6. The contemporary response to sensation fiction Janice M. Allan\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sensation, class and the rising professionals Mariaconcetta Constantini\u003cbr\u003e 8. Sensation fiction, empire and the Indian Mutiny Saverio Tomaiuolo\u003cbr\u003e 9. Sensation fiction, gender and identity Tara MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e 10. Sensation fiction, spiritualism and the supernatural Tatiana Kontou\u003cbr\u003e 11. Science and sensation Lillian Nayder\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sensation fiction and the publishing industry Graham Law\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sensation fiction and the medical context Pamela K. Gilbert\u003cbr\u003e 14. Sensation fiction and the New Woman Greta Depledge\u003cbr\u003e 15. The sensation legacy Lyn Pykett.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265009668376,"sku":"9780521760744","price":79.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521760744i.jpg?v=1692018900","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-sensation-fiction-hardback-9780521760744","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}