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Creating Character - Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction (Paperback)
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Creating Character - Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
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This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation
authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins,
engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation
and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject
or by others. Innovative readings of seven sensation novels explore
how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity,
degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and
social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of
'nature' versus 'nurture', Braddon and Collins show the creation of
character to be a complex interplay of internal and external
factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to
sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character
shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the
intersections of established and developing, conservative and
radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity
could be made and modified. -- .
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