Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre.(Book review)

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Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre. Edited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. xxiii + 278 pages.

Since the appearance of Winifred Hughes's The Maniac in the Cellar in 1980, Victorian scholars have given considerable attention to sensation fiction. A number of important essays, perhaps most significantly D. A. Miller's chapter on Woman in White (1860) in The Novel and the Police (1987), have been devoted to it (Miller's equally interesting chapter on The Moonstone [1868], maybe because it is less obviously ...

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