Creating Character - Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction

Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Self-control, willpower and monomania
1. Basil and No Name
2. John Marchmont's Legacy
Part II: Heredity and degeneration
3. The Lady Lisle
4. Armadale
Part III: Education, environment and circumstance
5. Man and Wife
6. Lost for Love
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Helena Ifill is a member of the School of English at the University of Sheffield

Summary

Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction -- .

Product details

• Authors: Helena Ifill
• Assisted by: Anna Barton (Editor), Andrew Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781784995133
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-513-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century; Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century; Interventions Rethinking the N; Interventions: Rethinking the
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies