Antebellum Sensational Novels and Subversion of Domesticity by Jozef Pecina

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Ominous signs or false clues?: difference and deformity in Wilkie Collins's sensation novels by Wagner, Tamara Silvia

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“Sensation” India by Elisabetta Marino

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En chair et en os ? Sens, sensations et sensationnalisme dans Desperate Remedies (1871) de Thomas Hardy by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy’s first novel, published under a pseudonym, is often regarded as a sensation novel. In the 1870s, though the literary genre was no longer as popular as it had been a decade before, resorting to sensational motifs and plot-patterns was still a significant means to foreground a modern world marked by capitalism, progress and urbanization. …”
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The nexus amidst Victorian and Neo-Victorian fiction: Bridging the void between past and present. by Lawrence, Tina.

“…The analysis will be structured into three parts. “Sensation Novel- The Paradox” will deal with the mechanisms of the Victorian sensation novel and the ways in which neo-Victorian fiction reworks this formula to fit into the current context. …”
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« Nothing can retain the spirit, and why should we preserve the shadow of the form ? » : imitation et recréation dans A Laodicean, la perpétuation de la tradition générique en ques... by Peggy Blin-Cordon

“…As soon as 1881, Hardy in A Laodicean broaches the question of originality through the use of genres: is it possible for a novelist to write an original novel belonging to traditional literary genres (the « Gothic », « Romance », the « Sensation Novel »), haunted by other famous works and authors as it may be ? …”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…Set in the late-1840s, Wilkie Collins’s sensation novel The Woman in White uses the Italian War of Independence as more than a background. …”
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Preface: "On Revenge" by Anna Maria Jones

“…When Robert Mannion, the scheming villain of Wilkie Collins's sensation novel Basil, reveals his revenge plot to the eponymous narrator, it might appear at first that he has thrown off the mantle of middle-class respectability to expose his "true" monstrous self: rapacious, violent, motivated equally by perverse appetites and the desire for vengeance. …”
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Wilkie Collins and the politics of adaptation on the Victorian stage by Laurella, R

“…<p>As the sensation novel was reclaimed by literary critics and cultural historians as a legitimate site of academic inquiry in the mid-twentieth century, Wilkie Collins’s canonical works became the topic of much scholarly interest. …”

Sages comme des images ? Les héroïnes sensationnalistes et le monde de la mode by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…This paper aims to study the way the sensation novels play upon images—from paintings to fashion plates—which display the extent to which modern femininity is artificial. …”
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The doppelganger : advocate of change in The Woman in White and The New Magdalen. by Ng, Kai Xin.

“…This research paper explores the role of the doppelganger in two of Wilkie Collins's sensation novels, The Woman in White and The New Magdalen. …”
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“Let me in!”: narratives of grief in nineteenth-century British literature by Koh, Carina Hui Ling

“…The texts for this project include Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853), and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s two sensation novels, Weavers and Weft (1876) and The Fatal Three (1888). …”
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