1st Edition

Sensational Deviance Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction

By Heidi Logan Copyright 2019
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of... Read more

TABLE OF CONTENTS:



- Introduction



- PART ONE: Wilkie Collins And Disabled Identities



1. Hide and Seek (1854)



2. The Dead Secret (1857)



3. Poor Miss Finch (1871-2)



4. The Law and the Lady (1875)



- PART TWO: Mary Elizabeth Braddon And Disabled Identities



5. The Trail of the Serpent (1860-1)



6. Lady Audley’s Secret (1861-2) and John Marchmont’s Legacy (1862-3)



7. The Lady’s Mile (1866) and One Thing Needful (1886)



8. Conclusion



- Bibliography

Biography

Heidi Logan holds a PhD. in English from the University of Auckland, a Master of Arts in English from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Master of Shakespeare Studies from The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Previous publications include monograph reviews for the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies (AJVS): Review of Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction, in AJVS 19.1 (2014), 77-79; Review of Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses, in AJVS 18.2 (2013), 42-44.