The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine

by D. Wynne

Overview

Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyses the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week , the author highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333776667
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/11/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

DEBORAH WYNNE is a lecturer in the Department of English at Keele University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Tantalizing Portions: Serialized Sensation Novels and Family Magazines Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White in All The Year Round Ellen Wood's East Lynne in the New Monthly Magazine Charles Dickens's Great Expectations in All The Year Round Illustrations Wilkie Collins's No Name in All The Year Round Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Eleanor's Victory in Once a Week Charles Reade's Very Hard Cash in All The Year Round Wilkie Collins's Armadale in The Cornhill Magazine Conclusion; Victorian Novels and the Periodical Press Appendix Bibliography Endnotes Index

Editorial Reviews

'...offers significant new insights into the sensation novel and the process of serial publication.' - Choice

'The point of Deborah Wynne's persuasive book...is to remind us of how much is to be learned from looking at Victorian fiction in its earliest context.' - The Times Literary Supplement

'I suspect that this will become a standard work on Victorian sensationalism.' - Andrew Elfenbein, Studies in English Literature

'The point of Deborah Wynne's persuasive book, The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine, is to remind us of how much is to be learned from looking at Victorian fiction in its earliest context. ...[She] draws an instructive picture of the relation between these racy narratives and the journals that published them.' - Dinah Birch, Times Literary Supplement

'Deborah Wynne's engaging study of sensation fiction and magazines is a welcome addition to a growing body of work that seeks to investigate the dynamics of serialization...' - Mark W. Turner, Journal of Victorian Culture

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