Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Introduction / Pamela K Gilbert -- Before Sensation, 1830₆1860. ₃The Aristocracy and Upholstery₄: The Silver Fork Novel / Ellen Miller Casey -- Newgate Novels / Edward Jacobs, Manuela Mour̂o -- ₃Literature of the Kitchen₄: Cheap Serial Fiction of the 1840s and 1850s / Andrew King -- Melodrama / Rohan McWilliam -- Sensation Theater / Heidi J Holder -- Gothic / Patrick R O'Malley -- Realism and Sensation Fiction / Daniel Brown -- Poetry and Sensation / Kirstie Blair -- Reading Individual Authors and Texts, 1860₆1880. Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Lyn Pykett -- Lady Audley's Secret: How She Do It? Sensation Fiction's Technologically Minded Villainesses / Louise Lee -- ₃Going in a Little for the Subjective₄: Textual and Moral Performance in / Richard Nemesvari -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon's / Amy J Robinson -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon's / Anne-Marie Beller -- Wilkie Collins and Risk / Daniel Martin -- and the New Sensation / Elizabeth Langland -- Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in / Susan Zieger -- Ouida / Jane Jordan -- Under Two Flags / Natalie Schroeder, Ronald A Schroeder -- Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood / Andrew Mangham -- Mrs. Henry Wood, / Marlene Tromp -- Sheridan Le Fanu / Anna Maria Jones -- Rhoda Broughton / Tamar Heller -- Charles Reade / Tom Bragg -- Ideologically Challenging: Florence Marryat and Sensation Fiction / Greta Depledge -- Edmund Hodgson Yates / Andrew Radford -- Sensational Variations on the Domestic Romance: Charlotte M. Brame and Mary Cecil Hay in the / Graham Law -- Amelia B. Edwards / Anne-Marie Beller -- Dora Russell / Janice M Allan -- Short Fiction / Brittany Roberts -- Topics in Scholarship. Critical Responses to Sensation / Deborah Wynne -- Gender and Sensation / Emily Allen -- Queer Sensation / Ross G Forman -- Class and Race in Sensation Fiction / Patrick Brantlinger -- The Empire and Sensation / Lillian Nayder -- Sensation Fiction and Religion / Mark Knight -- Sensation and Science / Susan David Bernstein -- Medicine and Sensation / Meegan Kennedy -- Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction / Martha Stoddard Holmes, Mark Mossman -- The Law and Sensation / Jane Jordan -- Sensation and Detection / Heather Milton -- ₃Come Buy, Come Buy₄: Sensation Fiction in the Context of Consumer and Commodity Culture / Kimberly Harrison -- Sensation and Illustration / Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge -- The Pre-Raphaelite Realism of the Sensation Novel / Sophia Andres -- After Sensation: Legacies. The Legacy of Sensation Fiction: Bodily Power in the New Woman Novel / Molly Youngkin -- Corelli's Religious Trilogy:, and / R Brandon Kershner -- Realism after Sensation: Meredith, Hardy, Gissing / Tabitha Sparks -- Aestheticism and Sensation / Talia Schaffer -- Neo-Victorian and Pastiche / Grace Moore -- Index.

pt. 1. Before sensation, 1830-1860 -- pt. 2. Reading individual authors and texts, 1860-1880 -- pt. 3. Topics in scholarship -- pt. 4. After sensation : legacies.

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