Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367666170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str.

Heidi Logan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.