Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1Pamela K. Gilbert
Part I: Before Sensation, 1830–1860 11
1 “The Aristocracy and Upholstery”: The Silver Fork Novel 13Ellen Miller Casey
2 Newgate Novels 26Edward Jacobs and Manuela Mourão
3 “Literature of the Kitchen”: Cheap Serial Fiction of the 1840s and 1850s 38Andrew King
4 Melodrama 54Rohan McWilliam
5 Sensation Theater 67Heidi J. Holder
6 Gothic 81Patrick R. O’Malley
7 Realism and Sensation Fiction 94Daniel Brown
8 Poetry and Sensation 107Kirstie Blair
Part II: Reading Individual Authors and Texts, 1860–1880 121
9 Mary Elizabeth Braddon 123Lyn Pykett
10 Lady Audley’s Secret: How Does She Do It? Sensation Fiction’s Technologically Minded Villainesses 134Louise Lee
11 “Going in a little for the subjective”: Textual and Moral Performance in The Doctor’s Wife 147Richard Nemesvari
12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd 160Amy J. Robinson
13 Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Joshua Haggard’s Daughter 172Anne-Marie Beller
14 Wilkie Collins and Risk 184Daniel Martin
15 The Woman in White and the New Sensation 196Elizabeth Langland
16 Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in The Moonstone 208Susan Zieger
17 Ouida 220Jane Jordan
18 Under Two Flags 232Natalie Schroeder and Ronald A. Schroeder
19 Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood 244Andrew Mangham
20 Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne 257Marlene Tromp
21 Sheridan Le Fanu 269Anna Maria Jones
22 Rhoda Broughton 281Tamar Heller
23 Charles Reade 293Tom Bragg
24 Ideologically Challenging: Florence Marryat and Sensation Fiction 306Greta Depledge
25 Edmund Hodgson Yates 319Andrew Radford
26 Sensational Variations on the Domestic Romance: Charlotte M. Brame and Mary Cecil Hay in the Family Herald 332Graham Law
27 Amelia B. Edwards 349Anne-Marie Beller
28 Dora Russell 361Janice M. Allan
29 Short Fiction 374Brittany Roberts
Part III: Topics in Scholarship 387
30 Critical Responses to Sensation 389Deborah Wynne
31 Gender and Sensation 401Emily Allen
32 Queer Sensation 414Ross G. Forman
33 Class and Race in Sensation Fiction 430Patrick Brantlinger
34 The Empire and Sensation 442Lillian Nayder
35 Sensation Fiction and Religion 455Mark Knight
36 Sensation and Science 466Susan David Bernstein
37 Medicine and Sensation 481Meegan Kennedy
38 Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction 493Martha Stoddard Holmes and Mark Mossman
39 The Law and Sensation 507Jane Jordan
40 Sensation and Detection 516Heather Milton
41 “Come Buy, Come Buy”: Sensation Fiction in the Context of Consumer and Commodity Culture 528Kimberly Harrison
42 Sensation and Illustration 540Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
43 The Pre-Raphaelite Realism of the Sensation Novel 559Sophia Andres
Part IV: After Sensation: Legacies 577
44 The Legacy of Sensation Fiction: Bodily Power in the New Woman Novel 579Molly Youngkin
45 Corelli’s Religious Trilogy: Barabbas, The Sorrows of Satan, and The Master-Christian 591R. Brandon Kershner
46 Realism after Sensation: Meredith, Hardy, Gissing 603Tabitha Sparks
47 Aestheticism and Sensation 614Talia Schaffer
48 Neo-Victorian and Pastiche 627Grace Moore
Index 639