Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels : Pleasures of the Senses /

This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading...

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Main Author:	Garrison, Laurie (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:	Literature. British and Irish Literature. Cultural Theory. Fiction. Gender Studies. Literary Theory. Nineteenth-Century Literature. British literature. Culture > Study and teaching. Gender expression. Gender identity. Literature > Philosophy. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Sex (Psychology) Sociology. Electronic books.
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Summary:	This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (XVII, 226 pages)
ISBN:	9780230297586
DOI:	10.1057/9780230297586