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Sensation and Professionalism in the Victorian Novel (Paperback, New edition)
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Sensation and Professionalism in the Victorian Novel (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Victorian and Edwardian Studies, 5
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This book explores the extent to which four sensation novelists
responded to the Victorian theorizing of professionalism. A crucial
period of redefinition of the professional ideal, the third quarter
of the nineteenth century also witnessed the rise and the decline
of the sensation novel, a scandalous and electrifying form that
challenged aesthetic and socio-cultural standards. Owing to their
controversial position in the literary marketplace, novelists like
Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charles Reade and Ellen
Wood developed a keen interest in professional issues, which occupy
centre stage in their 1850s-70s narratives. By drawing on a variety
of sociological, cultural and philosophical theories, Costantini
skilfully assesses the ideological implications of the genre's
fictionalization of professionalism. She shows how sensation
novelists provocatively represented the challenges faced by both
elite and rising professionals, who are used as narrative vehicles
for thorny discourses on authorship, ethicality, aestheticism and
sociocultural identity.
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