Comments on A Companion to Sensation Fiction [Wiley-Blackwell]
    Pamela K. Gilbertfs A Companion to Sensation Fiction assembles a set of lucid and informed essays that bid for the history, artistry, and ongoing cultural significance of the sensation genre. The volume, the first of its kind to address sensation fiction ... brings together established authorities with some newer critical voices to offer comprehensive coverage. The Companion addresses familiar contextual issues in the field\imperialism, the history of medicine, and the role of the periodical press\and ranges over subgenres from silver fork novels to twenty-first-century neo-Victorianism, and methods from legal history to cognitivism.
    The Companion divides sections along the lines of genre history, individual authors, and themes. ... The second section, gReading Individual Authors and Texts, 1860–1880,h provides interpretive biography of the best known writers as well as thematic readings of the more commonly taught novels. ... This section also includes eight chapters on other figures, from Sheridan Le Fanu and Rhoda Broughton to Charlotte Brame and Mary Cecil Hay (the discussion of the latter [by Graham Law] showcases the rewards of print history).
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  Elisha Cohn, Victorian Studies 55:4 (Summer 2013)


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