Heidi Logan

Sensational Deviance

Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781138319905
• ISBN-10: 1138319902
• Artikelnr.: 53684730

Autorenporträt

Heidi Logan holds a PhD. in English from the University of Auckland, a Master of Arts in English from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Master of Shakespeare Studies from The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Previous publications include monograph reviews for the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies (AJVS): Review of Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction, in AJVS 19.1 (2014), 77-79; Review of Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses, in AJVS 18.2 (2013), 42-44.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Wilkie Collins And Disabled Identities
1. Hide and Seek (1854)
2. The Dead Secret (1857)
3. Poor Miss Finch (1871-2)
4. The Law and the Lady (1875)
- PART TWO: Mary Elizabeth Braddon And Disabled Identities
5. The Trail of the Serpent (1860-1)
6. Lady Audley's Secret (1861-2) and John Marchmont's Legacy (1862-3)
7. The Lady's Mile (1866) and One Thing Needful (1886)
8. Conclusion
- Bibliography