.... But unlike Dracula, Red Pottage locates that monstrosity not in a foreign threat but in the hypocritical degeneracy of the English church, aristocracy, and most fundamentally, bourgeois matrimony. Breaking with contemporaneous imperial gothic and with the earlier generation of sensation fiction...

... . Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Daly Nicholas . 2009 . Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Darwin Charles . ( 1859 ) 2002 . The Origin of Species...

...Daniel Darvay This article argues that Virginia Woolf's theory and practice of the novel extends key elements of the gothic sublime shared by nineteenth-century sensation fiction and by contemporaneous psychiatric methods of diagnosis. In novels such as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and Mary...

....” This article argues that this freighted figure of inversion obscures the theories of embodiment found in sexological case studies themselves, which ground the experience of sex in sociality and sensation. The sexological invert provides the foundation for a trans feminine stock character that modernist novels...

... with the discourse of Victorian logic (especially the work of John Venn) and links this early sensation novel to Hardy's later output. Serial representation operates in two modes in Hardy: one material, tactile, and affective (figuring long-run processes of wear, attrition, and change); the other discrete, rational...

... ( November 1865 ): 593 - 4 . Loesberg Jonathan . “ The Ideology of Narrative Form in Sensation Fiction .” Representations 13 ( 1986 ): 115 - 38 . Lukács Georg . The Theory of the Novel . Cambridge : MIT Press , 1974 . Mansel H.L. “ Sensation Novels .” Quarterly...

... learn the meaning of the names of sensations?—of the word "pain" for example. Here is one possibility: words are connected with the primitive, the natural, expressions of the sensation and used in their place. A child has hurt himself and he cries; and then adults talk to him...

... of sight, and sensation more generally, at such a time. Why, then, bring up his useful allusion to Lessing and his aesthetic pronouncements on the indifferent pantheistic artist- god? One thing Lessing has in common with the other philosophers Stephen alludes to is his interest in the role of perceptual...

... exciting and provocative book reformulates the modernist problem of the dissociation of sen- sibility as "a dislocated generation's desire for sensate experience and simultane- ous ambivalence towards the somatic" (21). The modernist poets did not simply 1 The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology...

.... In fact, Entin cites the tabloid as one influence on these writers (13-17). Yet the tabloids that Entin has in mind do not bear the ironic self-awareness of sources such as the Weekly World News. Sensational- ism is one thing; sensationalism done with ironic self-reflexivity, as Butler picks up...

... to the reality of sensation, individual and collective, construction and exhibition. Language is the pathway of intentionality. The thematic of pain is taken up again in Part II of the Philosophical Investi- gations (sections I, IV, V, VIII, IX and XII), where Wittgenstein consolidates...

... putting an original interpretive spin on the Victorian inheritance plot, Chatterjee's reading also produces a generative vocabulary for the unsettling ways in which sensation fiction tends to at once contrive and subvert repressive structures of feminine subjectivity. The asymmetries of chapter 2...

..., Weird Cases: Domesticating the Law in Collins's The Law and the Lady and the Trial of Madeleine Smith.” In Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins , edited by Bachman Maria K. Cox Don Richard , 283 – 312 . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press . Johnston Judith...

.... 152 GENRE embarks on a sequence of novels "written rapidly and badly and with the maxi- mum injected sensation and violence and crude sex," and avowedly produced "for financial gain" (HS 116, 166). Cosette describes the first of these as "a sort of cross between Gone...

...? For — in retrospect — there were symptoms. I had a recurrent sense that I had just missed someone’s presence in the room; I read this as my dead (of multiple myeloma) father trying to contact me. I also had a sensation beyond the functional reality of difficulty zipping my jeans — there was a ledge inside my...

... shifting bodily sensations (“headache,” “nausea”) jostle up against outer percep- tions (bare winter trees), inner perceptions (“voices in my head metaphors (“slow barrel roll and abstract states of mind (“things I never did or would The novel’s twitchy, thickly clotted language gives us...

... Linati, do you think that books should be sort of toys, nicely built up of observations and sensations, all finished and complete?—I don’t. . . . whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn’t like it—if he wants a safe seat in the audience—let him read somebody else...

..., with an understanding of rhythm as an inassimilable repetitive force.4 The rhythmic structure of poems underscores the materiality of words in themselves, evoking an experience of language as pure physical sensation sepa- rated from the conditions of meaning.5 Reveling in the driving momentum...

... to represent the interrelatedness of the protagonist’s thoughts and the events that surround her. At times, the bolded narrative sections of the text are clearly demarcated from the fragmented memories, images and sensations that surround them, as in the following example...

... and critical methods, framing its readings with insights from affect theory and lyric studies as well as from history and theology. Most striking is Harrison's detailed examination, in chapter 4, of Traherne's lyrics alongside the notions of fetal sensation advanced by Descartes and by William Harvey...