Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists

Sensation fiction dominated the literary market in the 1860s. This book focuses on the roots of its emergence and demise, relating its rise to the crisis of faith in the ideology of self-help. Rance has also written "The Historical Novel and Popular Politics in 19th century England".

Inhalt
Dim oblivion of right and wrong; innocent criminals: the domestic saga; sensation and supernaturalism; the sensation school; "The Woman in White" and "No Name": the sensation novel and self-help; mad today and sane tomorrow: the sensation novel and the asylum; Wilkie having missions: the demise of sensation fiction; conclusion - Sheridan Le Fanu and sensation fiction.