... differentiated between sensationalism and its respected rival, realism, will clarify the advantages of Oliphant’s generic innova- tions (“Sensation” 260).10 A subject of contention in the 1860s, sensation fiction was 9 Shirley Jones and Marlene Tromp have written helpful studies of the implications...

...Daniel Williams This essay considers the significance of rumor in the work of Thomas Hardy, anchoring its claims in a reading of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). I argue that rumor conditions the narrative movement of this novel through its linked operations in social space and bodily sensation...

...: Harcourt Brace, 1953 . "Newforms for our new sensations": ~ooIfandthe Lesson of Torts RAVIT REICHMAN It must not be forgotten that "duty" got into our law for the very purpose of combating what was then feared to be a dangerous delusion...

...Meegan Kennedy Literary critics' work on the sensation novel has often focused on these novels' purported ability to create affect—specifically suspense, shock, and fear—in their readers. This critical emphasis on how novels reproduce affect in the reader overlooks how they record affect...

... makes the realist novel historical through the representation of motion as vertiginous sensation and as a problematic register of experience. The very uncertainty of the sensation of motion evokes history as a horizon rather than as a causal sequence. The term vection came to be used later...

... as a Young Man , where Stephen Dedalus's low vision draws his attention to sensations that repeatedly distract from his bildungsroman plot. The low-vision characters of Ulysses then offer a conclusion to this strategy in the way they altogether abandon progress to make a narrative of wandering sensations...

... event in the evolutionary history of this theme was the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and one text that translated this lesson of the Mutiny most powerfully for popular thinking was Mary Elizabeth Braddon's famous sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret (1861-62). The Doctrine of Survivals, the Great Mutiny...

... in which an emergent fashion industry summons women to abandon the corset in public and enter the fantasy worlds of modern dress designs that accentuate the body and stimulate its desires, so too are novelists issuing similar summons. Such sensational novels as Bram Stoker's Dracula and George du Maurier's...

... of politics is shaped first and foremost by a sustained inquiry into the poetics of sense, or an aisthesis (the experience of sense, sensation, and sensibility), I try to bridge the conceptual gap he establishes between the sensible of aesthetics and the sensible of politics. Using a postcolonial novel, Tahar...

... sensational bestseller Ben-Hur _(1880). At the same time, authors of Jesus novels somehow had to negotiate the sacral quality of the imago Christi within the formal constraints of the literary portrait. At their most daring, literary portraits of the historical Jesus, whether they subvert or reify Christ's...

... beliefs not ordinarily understood as beliefs, such as sensations and emotions. Rather than advocating the “feeling of satisfaction and self-congratulation” that Newman identifies with certitude, Wilde seeks to make paradigmatic the ambiguity and, even more important, the vicariousness that he identifies...

... the accumulation of detail, as through a kind of supercharged observation and modulations of narrative pace and speed. If taxonomy ends in an array, the novel's typicality manifests itself more phenomenologically and affectively, through sentiments and hard‐to‐define sensations that include those of decline...

... secrets elided in rows of debit and credit one by one as sensational truths; to those ends, both writers invoke Gothic conventions. By dispatching the totalizing technique that had been invented by early modern merchants and finessed by realist novelists to generate faith in a stable fiduciary community...

...: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991 . Edwards , P.D. Some Mid-Victorian Thrillers: The Sensation Novel, Its Friends and Its Foes . St. Lucia: U of Queensland P, 1971 . Elam , Diane . “White Narratology: Gender and Reference in Wilkie...

...Vanessa Ryan ANNA MARIA JONES, Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007), pp. 163, cloth, $34.95. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 What Novels Do anna maria jones, Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction...

... of sensational modernists and that of high modernism tout court. The force of Entin’s argument is most firmly established in the second introductory chapter, which situates the broader politics of modernist sensationalism within the rheto- rics of two larger traditions of representation—“scrutiny...

... argument. His attention to the 1860s and the railway spans two chapters and piquant readings of an assortment of texts. In chapters on sensation drama and fiction, Daly considers plays by Boucicault and Augustin Daly. He indudes references to Dickenq and offers a pointed note on Wilde's Tke...

... is ‘Sensational’ about the ‘Sensation Novel’?” Ed. Lyn Pycket. Wilkie Collins . New York: St. Martin’s, 1998 . 30 –57. Collins , Wilkie . The Moonstone . London: Chancellor, 1994 . Collins , Wilkie . No Name . New York: Oxford UP, 1993 . Collins , Wilkie . The Woman in White...

... Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 1992 . Daly Nicholas . Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s . New York : Cambridge UP , 2009 . De Hauranne Ernest Duvergier . A Frenchman in Lincoln’s America . 1865 . 2 vols. Trans...

...Roger Luckhurst DALY NICHOLAS , Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2009 ), pp. 264 , cloth, $88.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Chambers Ross . “The Unexamined.” Whiteness: A Critical Reader . New...