Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists: Walking the Moral Hospital

Rance, Nicholas

Sensation fiction dominated the literary market in the 1860s. This book focuses on the roots of its emergence and demise, relating its rise to the crisis of faith in the ideology of self-help. Rance has also written "The Historical Novel and Popular Politics in 19th century England".

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1991-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349119660

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11964-6

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 199