| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
pleasures of the senses |
| 作者: |
GarrisonLaurie, 1975- |
| 出版地: |
New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
c2011 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (xvii, 226 p.) |
| 標題: |
English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century - |
| 標題: |
Sensationalism in literature. - |
| 標題: |
Senses and sensation in literature. - |
| 標題: |
Heroines in literature. - |
| 標題: |
Science in literature. - |
| 標題: |
Sex in literature. - |
| 標題: |
LITERARY CRITICISM - European - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230297586An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
Science, sexuality and sensation novels offers the most detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel published to date. Reviewers did not simply condemn and dismiss the genre; instead they theorized the sensual forms of reading the sensation novel inspired and they debated its effects on the body and the mind. Physiology in particular offered accounts of the body and the senses that aided in the formulation of theories of the physical reading that the sensation novel inspired. Sensation novelists helped to provoke reviewer attention to senses, bodies and physical stimulation through their own preoccupations with sciences centrally concerned with human physiology. Wilkie Collins and Rhoda Broughton were fascinated with trance states and wandering souls theorized in mesmerism and spiritualism. Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon and Ellen Wood investigated the tension between physiological impulse and social convention in theories of social science. This book seeks to offer a new and broader account of the influence of science in the formulation of one of the most popular and widely published genres of the Victorian period. |
| ISBN: |
9780230297586electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230297587electronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
Taxonomies of stimulation: science, gender and sexuality in the sensation novel debate. The invention of the sensation novel: three early reviewers The debate intensifies: responses to the early reviewers Gender and sexuality in parodies of the sensation novel debate Magnetic science and the sensation novel: stimulating bodies, senses and souls. The interrelated histories of mesmerism, spiritualism and the sensation novel Mesmeric and erotic affinities in The woman in white Bodily pleasures and spiritual unions in Cometh up as a flower Social science and the rise of the sensation heroine: reconfiguring the female breeding body. From economics to evolution: sensationalising courtship, marriage and reproduction Great expectations: Estella's subtle sensations Aurora Floyd: a manifesto for the sensation heroine St Martin's Eve: variations of the sensation heroine Afterword: the afterlife of the sensation novel. |