Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels Pleasures of the Senses
Description
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.
Keywords
FictionLiterary CriticismSemiotics & TheoryModern19th CenturyEuropeanSocial ScienceGender StudiesLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2010Book
Author(s)Laurie Garrison
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230203167
LanguageEnglish
