Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation

Wilful Bodies

Tara MacDonald

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English

Edinburgh University Press
08 November 2023

Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures

Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies argues that Victorian sensation novels

long dismissed as plot-driven, silly, and feminine

develop complex theories of narrative affect, our embodied responses to reading, imagining, and even writing a narrative.

The popular sensation novel thus should be understood as a key contribution to the novel's assessment of its own workings, especially the ways in which reading and writing figure as affective acts. Additionally, the book radically expands the field of sensation fiction, taking seriously lesser-known female authors, and reading them alongside a range of writers not typically considered sensational. These novels insist that feelings are not bound to a single body and that bodies generate meaning when they are put in relation to other bodies and systems of knowledge.

By: Tara MacDonald
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399522199
ISBN 10: 1399522191
Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 08 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tara MacDonald is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Idaho, USA. She is the author of The New Man, Masculinity, and Marriage in the Victorian Novel (2015), co-editor, with Anne-Marie Beller, of Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers (2014). She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction.

Reviews for Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies

"""MacDonald's work elegantly traces transpersonal affects through the narratives of well-known and little-read sensation novels. The monograph is equally well attuned to the insights of contemporary affect theory as to the minute bodily gestures and narratorial inflections of the Victorian narratives. A wonderful addition to scholarship in the field.? "" -Beth Palmer, University of Surrey"