This book recovers the fiction of Charles Reade, who was among the best-known authors of the sensation fiction of the 1860s, as a body of work that anticipates recent trends in literary and cultural theory.

Autorentext
RICHARD FANTINA is Profesor of Graduate Studies at the Union Institute and University, UK.

Inhalt
Introduction Sensation Fiction and the Emergence of the Victorian Literary Field Saying 'No' to Power: It is Never Too Late to Mend and Hard Cash Sex and Sexuality, Gender and Transgender Sensational Paradigms: Reade's Griffith Gaunt and Braddon's Aurora Floyd Reade, Race and Colonialism Coda: Recovering Reade