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Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation

Wilful Bodies

Tara MacDonald author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Publishing:1st May '25

£19.99

This title is due to be published on 1st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies argues that Victorian sensation novels long dismissed as plot-driven, silly, and feminine develop complex theories of narrative affect, our embodied responses to reading, imagining, and even writing a narrative. The popular sensation novel thus should be understood as a key contribution to the novel's assessment of its own workings, especially the ways in which reading and writing figure as affective acts. Additionally, the book radically expands the field of sensation fiction, taking seriously lesser-known female authors, and reading them alongside a range of writers not typically considered sensational. These novels insist that feelings are not bound to a single body and that bodies generate meaning when they are put in relation to other bodies and systems of knowledge.

ISBN: 9781399522205

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

232 pages