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Harrison, Kimberly, and Richard Fantina, eds. Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre.(Book review)
Publication: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 Author: Cooper, Nadine
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Harrison, Kimberly, and Richard Fantina, eds. Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. Cloth 278 pp. $49.95 CD $9.95
"DESPITE the outrage of Victorian critics and churchmen, sensation novels were frequently bestsellers," outshining the novels of classic Victorian realism with their shocking themes of "bigamy, illegitimacy, drug abuse, murder, inheritance scandals, and adultery." Yet, as Harrison and Fantina point...
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