Creating character: Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction
Creating character explores the range of ways in which the two leadingsensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins,engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about how personality is formed, and theextent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others.Innovative readings of Braddon's and Collins'ssensation novels - some of them canonical, others less well-known - demonstratehow they reflect, employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity,degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and socialcircumstance. The book shows the creation of character to be a complexinterplay of internal…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, Andrew (Hrsg.) / Barton, Anna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78499-513-3
- EAN: 9781784995133
- Produktnummer: 23402396
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.3 cm 431 g
- Gewicht: 431
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Helena Ifill is a member of the School of English at the University of Sheffield
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