Editorial: Edinburgh University Press
Colección: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Número de páginas: 232 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-08-2023
EAN: 9781399522199
ISBN: 978-1-3995-2219-9
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
This book argues that Victorian sensation novels – long dismissed as plot-driven, silly, and feminine – develop complex theories of narrative affect, our embodied responses to reading, imagining, and even writing a narrative. The popular sensation novel thus should be understood as a key contribution to the novel’s assessment of its own workings, especially the ways in which reading and writing figure as affective acts. Additionally, the book radically expands the field of sensation fiction, taking seriously lesser-known female authors, and reading them alongside a range of writers not typically considered sensational.