Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels [electronic resource] : Pleasures of the Senses /
Garrison, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prospectus for a New Study of Sensation Novels; 1 Taxonomies of Stimulation: Science, Gender and Sexuality in the Sensation Novel Debate; 2 Magnetic Science and the Sensation Novel: Stimulating Bodies, Senses and Souls; 3 Social Science and the Rise of the Sensation Heroine: Reconfiguring the Female Breeding Body; Afterword: The Afterlife of the Sensation Novel; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British literature.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.
Cultural Theory.