Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation
Wilful Bodies
Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 1 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399522205
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 658
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Short description:
Positions the sensation novel, and nineteenth-century popular fiction more generally, as vital to the history of feeling
MoreLong description:
Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies 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. These novels insist that feelings are not bound to a single body and that bodies generate meaning when they are put in relation to other bodies and systems of knowledge.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Preface: Centring Sensationalism
Introduction: Hyperrealism and Victorian Affects
1. Immersive Reading and Sensational Emplotment
2. Morbidity and Sensational Authorship
3. Privacy and ‘Public Feeling’ in Salem Chapel and Armadale
4. Crowds and Bodily Sympathy in Wood and Clive
5. Collins, Hardy and Reade’s Sympathetic Doubles
Coda: The Affective Pleasures of Reading and Not Reading
Works Cited
Index
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