Sensation Fiction and Modernity
The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation...
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This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction also depicts modernity in the form of intellectual and moral discontinuity. Through closely historicist readings of novels by Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Rhoda Broughton, this book traces how discontinuity is manifested in the suspenseful plotting of these fictions, through which readers are challenged to revise conventional assumptions about the world and adopt more contingent perspectives. The study demonstrates that reading for this sense of modernity does not merely uncover the genre's engagements with various mid-century contexts. More fundamentally, it broaches a new sense of the function and significance of sensation fiction: the acclimatization of its readers to the discontinuities of modern existence.
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1: Introduction.- 2: 'Straight through those clear blue eyes into his soul': dreams of transparency in mary elizabeth braddon's the trail of the serpent (1860).- 3: 'The curse that has always followed us': (dis)inheriting the past in joseph sheridan le fanu's wylder's hand (1864).- 4: 'Short-spanned living creatures': evolutionary perspectives and the fate of progress in rhoda broughton's not wisely, but too well (1867).- 5: 'Can I say I believe in it too?': hesitation and the difficulties of decision in wilkie collins's armadale (1866).- 6: Conclusion.Autoren-Porträt von James Aaron Green
James Aaron Green is a postdoctoral research fellow (ÖAW APART-GSK) at the University of Vienna, Austria, specializing in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular fiction. His work is published in Gothic Studies, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and Wilkie Collins in Context (2023) and is due to appear in Gothic Dreams and Nightmares (2024). His recent work in literary age and aging studies is forthcoming in the book Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Aaron Green
- 2024, 2024, X, 231 Seiten, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 303149833X
- ISBN-13: 9783031498336
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Englisch
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