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Reform in literature --- Canon (Literature) --- Sensationalism in literature --- Social problems in literature --- Social norms in literature --- Women in literature

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English fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Sensationalism in literature --- Women --- Books and reading --- Great Britain --- History --- Women and literature --- Women authors

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Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. Anxious critics traced the infection of the imperial, healthy body of masculine elite culture by 'diseased' popular fiction, especially novels by women. This book discusses works by three novelists - M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and 'Ouida' - within this historical context. In each case, the comparison of an early, 'sensation' novel against a later work shows how generic categorization worked in the context of social concerns to contain anxiety and limit interpretive possibilities. Within the texts themselves, references to contemporary critical and medical literatures resist or exploit mid-Victorian concepts of health, nationality, class and the body.

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon, one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian period, remains best known for her sensation fiction, but over the course of a long career contributed to a multitude of literary genres, working as a journalist, short story writer and editor, as well as authoring more than eighty novels. This exciting new collection of essays reappraises Braddon’s work and offers a series of new perspectives on her literary productions. The volume is divided into two parts: the first considers Braddon’s seminal sensation novel, Lady Audley’s Secret ; the second examines some of her lesser known fiction, including her first published novel, The Trail of the Serpent , as well as some of her twentieth-century fiction. The first collection of essays on Braddon to appear since 1999, this volume sheds new light on the ‘Queen of the circulating libraries’.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth --- Domestic fiction, English --- Sensationalism in literature. --- Domestic fiction, English. --- English domestic fiction --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Braddon, M. E. --- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, --- Breddon, --- Braddon, --- Maxwell, M. E. --- Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth, --- Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, --- White, Babington, --- Брэддон, Мэри Элизабет, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature

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This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby uncovers themes and images in this "literature of sensation" that reveal the profound influence that the U.S.-Mexican War and other nineteenth-century imperial ventures throughout the Americas had on U.S. politics and culture. Streeby's analysis of this fascinating body of popular literature and mass culture broadens into a sweeping demonstration of the importance of the concept of empire for understanding U.S. history and literature. This accessible, interdisciplinary book brilliantly analyzes the sensational literature of George Lippard, A.J.H Duganne, Ned Buntline, Metta Victor, Mary Denison, John Rollin Ridge, Louisa May Alcott, and many other writers. Streeby also discusses antiwar articles in the labor and land reform press; ideas about Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua in popular culture; and much more. Although the Civil War has traditionally been a major period marker in U.S. history and literature, Streeby proposes a major paradigm shift by using mass culture to show that the U.S.-Mexican War and other conflicts with Mexicans and Native Americans in the borderlands were fundamental in forming the complex nexus of race, gender, and class in the United States.

Classes sociales dans la littérature --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Ethnische groepen in de literatuur --- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature --- Imperialism in literature --- Imperialisme in de literatuur --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Nativism in literature --- Race dans la littérature --- Race in literature --- Ras in de literatuur --- Sensatiezucht in de literatuur --- Sensationalism in literature --- Sensationnalisme dans la littérature --- Social classes in literature --- Sociale klassen in de literatuur --- 19th century. --- American fiction. --- American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism. --- Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century. --- Popular literature. --- Popular literature - United States - History and criticism. --- Sociology of literature --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- American fiction --- Popular literature --- Literature and society --- Social classes in literature. --- Sensationalism in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Nativism in literature. --- Race in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- United States --- Lippard, George --- Criticism and interpretation --- Buntline, Ned --- Murieta, Joaquin --- 1800s. --- academic. --- american culture. --- american history. --- amnesia. --- anti imperialism. --- class issues. --- class. --- classism. --- cultural studies. --- empire. --- factory workers. --- imperial. --- imperialism. --- plantation. --- pop culture history. --- pop culture. --- popular culture. --- race issues. --- race. --- racism. --- romance. --- scholarly. --- united states history. --- us history. --- us mexican war. --- wartime. --- world history.