Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Afterword from the hinterland / John Sutherland. Prize novelists and condensed novels: Thackeray and Bret Harte / Michael Slater -- Before New Grub Street: Thomas Miller and the contingencies of authorship / Adam Abraham -- Emboldening the weak: early fiction of James Anthony Froude / Ciaran Brady -- George Borrow: the scholar, the gipsy, the priest / Monika Mazurek -- Sensation fiction as social activism: Charles Reade's It is never too late to mend and Felicia Skene's Hidden depths / Elizabeth Andrews -- Sheer luck, Holmes? Clues towards canon formation in Victorian detective fiction / Daragh Downes -- Politics of the strange and unusual: mesmerism and the medical professional in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Dr. Carrick (1878) / Samantha J.M. Aliu -- Silas K. Hocking, Her Benny, and the poetics of the prolific / Christopher Pittard -- Henry Hawley Smart's The Great Tontine and the art of book-making / Trish Ferguson -- Double standards: reading the revolutionary Doppelganger in The prophet's mantle / Matthew Ingleby -- Richard Marsh and the realist Gothic: pursuing traces of an evasive author in his fin-de-siecle popular fiction / Ailise Bulfin -- Dat cura commodum, or, A portrait of a deviant mind: Arthur Griffith's The Rome express, John Milne's The express series and late-Victorian detective fiction / Paul Raphael Rooney -- Afterword from the hinterland / John Sutherland.
Series:
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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