| 书目名称 | Sensation Fiction and Modernity | | 副标题 | The Meanings of Ambi | | 编辑 | James Aaron Green | | 视频video | | | 概述 | First book-length study of the relations between sensation fiction and modernity.First study of any kind to assess the genre against a so called ‘cultural discontinuity’ sense of modernity.Broadens ou | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the form of nervous subjects and technologically-enabled mobility, Green contends that sensation fiction also depicts modernity in the form of intellectual and moral discontinuity. Through closely historicist readings of novels by Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, as well as by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Rhoda Broughton, this book traces how discontinuity is manifested in the suspenseful plotting of these fictions, through which readers are challenged to revise conventional assumptions about the world and adopt more contingent perspectives. The study demonstrates that reading for this sense of modernity does not merely uncover the genre‘s engagements with various mid-century contexts. More fundamentally, it broaches a new sense of the function and significance of sensation fiction: the acclimatization of its readers to the discontinuities of modern existence.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2024 | | 关键词 | modernity; sensation fiction; Victorian literature; popular fiction; literature and science | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49834-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-49836-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-49834-3 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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