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The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s
By (Author) Winifred Hughes
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
823.8
Paperback
224
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
312g
Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its practitioners, and its implications, and reveals i