Sensation fiction emerged in the 1860s, and immediately generated alarm as many critics viewed the genre as a threat to prevailing Victorian values. Charles Reade, along with Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, was among the most well-known sensation novelists. With its explicit critique of power relations in the fields of medicine, criminal justice, and sexual mores, Reade's work anticipates Michel Foucault's theories elaborated a century later. Reade's work also provides rare glimpses of alternative sexualities and gender identities in nineteenth-century fiction. This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in literary and cultural theory.
Lieferbar
ISBN | 9780230620377 |
---|---|
Sprache | eng |
Cover | body,colonialism,corpus,fiction,gender,Victorian era, B, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Literary History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Fiction Literature, European Literature, Regional Cultural Studies, Palgrave Literature Collection, British literature, Literature—History and criticism, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature: history & criticism, Regional Studies, Cultural Studies, Fester Einband |
Verlag | Springer Nature EN |
Jahr | 2010 |
Dieser Artikel hat noch keine Bewertungen.