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Victorian Sensation
Language: en
Pages: 645
Authors: James A. Secord
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one
Victorian Sensation
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Michael Diamond
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Anthem Press

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A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: D. Wynne
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-07-11 - Publisher: Springer

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Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationsh
Victorian Sensation
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Michael Diamond
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-10-04 - Publisher: Anthem Press

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'Victorian Sensation' sheds light on the Victorians' fascination with celebrity culture and their obsession with gruesome and explicit reportage of murders and
Victorian Sensations
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Kimberly Harrison
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Ohio State University Press

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"Wildly popular with Victorian readers, sensation fiction was condemned by most critics for scandalous content and formal features that deviated from respectabl