The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel - (Writers and Their Work) 2nd Edition by Lynn Pykett (Paperback)

About the Book

This study responds to developments of the sensation novel within literature, television and popular culture, and takes into account recent studies of the genre.

Book Synopsis

First published in 1994, Lyn Pykett's The Sensation Novel from The Woman in Whiteto The Moonstone charted the re-emergence into critical view of the nineteenth century fictional genre which had, in its own day, enjoyed immense popular success and given rise to heated critical and moral debates. Since the mid-1990s the sensation novel has continued to attract the attention of both general readers, critics and scholars. In the last fifteen years the sensation novel has been brought to
fresh audiences in numerous new editions and in new television and radio adaptations. This revised and expanded edition, retitled The Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel, responds to these developments, taking account of recent studies of the genre, and expanding both the range of authors covered and its discussion of the authors originally included.

Review Quotes

""The NIneteenth-Century Sensation Novel," usefully updates the earlier work, taking account of recent studies of the sensation genre and expanding both the number of authors covered and its discussion of the authors originally included."--John O. Jordan "Studies in English Literature (SEL), 52, 4 (Autumn 2012) "

About the Author

Lynn Pykett is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Aberystwyth. She has written widely on 19th and 20th century fiction, including Emily Bronte (1989), The Improper Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Women's Writing (1992) and Engendered Fictions: The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century. Professor Pykett is also Editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture.