This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade, who was among the best-known authors of the sensation fiction of the 1860s, as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in literary and cultural theory
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This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade, who was among the best-known authors of the sensation fiction of the 1860s, as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in literary and cultural theory
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-199) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sensation Fiction and the Emergence of the Victorian Literary Field; 2 Saying ""No"" to Power: It Is Never Too Late to Mend and Hard Cash; 3 Sex and Sexuality, Gender and Transgender; 4 Sensational Paradigms: Reade's Griffith Gaunt and Braddon's Aurora Floyd; 5 Reade, Race, and Colonialism; Coda: Recovering Reade; Notes; Works Cited; Index
