by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
A collection of essays on Victorian sensation fiction should be, like the genre itself, an entertaining read, and Pamela K. Gilbert’s A Companion to Sensation Fiction does not disappoint, proving to be a fascinating and scholarly collection of essays. The volume forms...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Collins’s work, as he famously noted in the Preface to Armadale, “oversteps, in more than one direction, the narrow limits within which [critics] are disposed to restrict the development of modern fiction,” and this new collection of essays aims to move beyond the...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
The aim of Laurie Garrison’s book, entitled Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses is to help fill a critical void in the study of sensation novels, in particular as regards the cultural context in which these novels were generated. Whereas...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Deborah Wynne is concerned with both the material production of fiction and the experience of reading. In this informative study of the sensation novel in the 1860s, she reminds us that these two things are closely inter-related, and in ways which make our reading of...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
In his essay on “The Unknown Public” in Household Words in August 1858, Wilkie Collins assumed a great gulf fixed between the middle-class literary audience (“the subscribers to this journal, the customers at publishing houses, the members of book-clubs and...
