商品簡介
Tracing the rise of sensational fiction between 1790 and 1890, mostly American scholars of English literature find analogues and interchange between American, British, and continental writers of novels and stories that feature crime, mystery, illicit sex, or other transgressive themes. Much of the literature was highly popular, but has been ignored by scholars focused on high-culture. The topics include 19th-century sensationalism and Oliver Twist, Charles Reade as the British Harriet Beecher Stowe and the affect of sensation, the tragic mulatta and the rise of British sensation fiction, Eliot's "The Lifted Veil" and Alcott's sensation stories, The Return of the Native as transatlantic sensation, and the Anglo-American sensationalization of the Balkans. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jennifer Phegley is Professor of English, John Cyril Barton is Assistant Professor of English, and Kristin N. Huston is a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.
