Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses

Garrison, L.

This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-11-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230203167

DOI: 10.1057/9780230297586

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 226