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English fiction --- Sensationalism in literature --- Popular literature --- History and criticism

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This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century. Characterised by exhilarating plots, large-scale special effects and often transgressive characterisation, these dramas are still exciting for modern readers. This anthology lays the foundation for further scholarly work on sensation drama and focuses public attention on to this influential and immensely popular genre. It features five plays from writers including Dion Boucicault and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. These are supported by a substantial critical apparatus, which adds further value to the anthology by providing rich details on performance history and textual variants. The critical introduction situates the genre in its cultural context and argues for the significance of sensation drama to shifting theatrical cultures and practices.

English drama --- Melodrama, English --- Sensationalism in literature --- 1800-1899

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Intertextuality. --- Redemption in literature. --- Sensationalism in literature. --- Heine, Heinrich, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Arguing that affect has a history, Ann Cvetkovich challenges both nineteenth- and twentieth-century claims that the expression of feeling is naturally or intrinsically liberating or reactionary. The central focus of Mixed Feelings is the Victorian sensation novel, the fad genre of the 1860s, whose controversial popularity marks an important moment in the history of mass culture. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, and Foucauldian cultural theory, Cvetkovich investigates the sensation novel's power to produce emotional responses, its representation of social problems as affective ones, and the difficulties involved in assessing the genre as either reactionary or subversive. She is particularly concerned with the relation of gender and affect since many of the sensation novels were written by and for women, and women. By examining the powerful conjunction of ideologies of affect, gender, and mass culture, Cvetkovich reveals the powerful political effects of affective expression and sensational representations.

English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Sensationalism in literature. --- Popular culture --- History and criticism. --- History --- Collective behavior in literature --- Feminist fiction, English --- Sensationalism in literature --- History and criticism

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German literature --- Fiction --- Thematology --- anno 1800-1899 --- Historical fiction, German --- -Sensationalism in literature --- German historical fiction --- German fiction --- History and criticism --- Retcliffe, John Sir --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Sensationalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sensationalism in literature --- Retcliffe, John, --- Goedsche, Hermann Ottomar Friedrich, --- Redkliff, Dzhon, --- Criticism and interpretation.