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Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses
Laurie Garrison
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Description for Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230203167
SKU
V9780230203167
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99-15
About Laurie Garrison
LAURIE GARRISON is Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. She has published on a number of interdisciplinary topics, such as visual culture in the work of Wilkie Collins and the science of sexuality in Mary Braddon's novels.
Reviews for Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses
'...persuasive and enlightening, revealing a good eye for detail and nuance...' - BSLS