Dirty reading: sensation fiction, women, and primitivism. From: Criticism | Date: March 22, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 Wayne State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Victorian critics condemned sensation fiction of the 1860s for its depictions of female sexuality, class position, intelligence and literary forms. The contradictions in bourgeois ideology between home and marketplace were emphasized in the fiction. The more aggressive women depicted in the fiction can be linked to contemporary anthropological dialogue about primitivism. The fiction contradicted Victorian images of women as desexualized angels and upset the socially stratified order. Critics attempted to marginalize sensation fiction as a product of the lower classes but the audience was more ...

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