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Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists

Walking the Moral Hospital

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Nicholas Rance

    1. Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 1-17

  3. ‘Dim Oblivion of Right and Wrong’

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 19-36

  4. ‘Innocent Criminals’: The Domestic Saga

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 37-50

  5. Sensation and Supernaturalism

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 51-63

  6. The Sensation ‘School’

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 64-80

  7. The Woman in White and No Name: The Sensation Novel and Self-Help

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 81-108

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

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 109-128

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

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 129-156

  10. Conclusion: Sheridan Le Fanu and Sensation Fiction

    • Nicholas Rance
    Pages 157-168

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 169-199
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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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