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VICTORIAN SENSATIONS H&F Fm 3Rd.Qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page Ii H&F Fm 3Rd.Qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page Iii H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page i VICTORIAN SENSATIONS H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page ii H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page iii ᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑ VICTORIAN SENSATIONS ķ Essays on a Scandalous Genre EDITED BY Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina The Ohio State University Press Columbus ᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑ H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page iv Copyright ©2006 by The Ohio State University Press. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Victorian sensations : essays on a scandalous genre / edited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978–0-8142–1031–4 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0–8142–1031–7 (alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978–0-8142–9108–5 (cd-rom) ISBN-10: 0–8142–9108–2 (cd-rom) 1. English fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Sensationalism in litera- ture. I. Harrison, Kimberly, 1969– II. Fantina, Richard. PR878.S44V53 2006 823'.809353—dc22 2006005531 Cover design by Laurence Nozik. Text design by Jennifer Shoffey Forsythe. Type set in Adobe Garamond by Jennifer Shoffey Forsythe. Printed by Thomson Shore, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48–1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page v ᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑ CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Richard Fantina and Kimberly Harrison ix Part One Sensation: Genre, Textuality, and Reception 1. “Highly Flavoured Dishes” and “Highly Seasoned Garbage”: Sensation in the Athenaeum ELLEN MILLER CASEY 3 2. “Judged by a Purely Literary Standard”: Sensation Fiction, Horizons of Expectation, and the Generic Construction of Victorian Realism RICHARD NEMESVARI 15 3. Censoring Her Sensationalism: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and The Doctor’s Wife CATHERINE J. GOLDEN 29 4. Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the “Combination Novel”: The Subversion of Sensational Expectation in Vixen ALBERT C. SEARS 41 5. “Of All the Horrors . The Foulest and Most Cruel”: Sensation and Dickens’s Oliver Twist DIANA C. ARCHIBALD 53 6. Naturalism in Charles Reade’s Experimental Novel, Griffith Gaunt DIANNA VITANZA 64 7. Swedenborg and the Disintegration of Language in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Sensation Fiction DEVIN P. ZUBER 74 Part Two Sensational Representations of Corporeality, Gender, and Sexuality 8. “That Muddy, Polluted Flood of Earthly Love”: Ambivalence about the Body in Rhoda Broughton’s Not Wisely but Too Well TAMAR HELLER 87 H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page vi vi CONTENTS 9. Sensational Hair: Gender, Genre, and Fetishism in the Sensational Decade GALIA OFEK 102 10. “What Could I Do?”: Nineteenth-Century Psychology and the Horrors of Masculinity in The Woman in White ANDREW MANGHAM 115 11. “Chafing at the Social Cobwebs”: Gender and Transgender in the Work of Charles Reade RICHARD FANTINA 126 12. Women Alone: Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” and Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” NANCY WELTER 138 13. One Sister’s Surrender: Rivalry and Resistance in Rhoda Broughton’s Cometh Up as a Flower LINDSEY FABER 149 14. “Personal Property at Her Disposal”: Inheritance Law, the Single Woman, and The Moonstone JENNIFER A. SWARTZ 160 Part Three Class, Racial, and Cultural Contexts in the Sensation Novel and on the Stage 15. “I Will Not Live in Poverty and Neglect”: East Lynne on the East End Stage ANDREW MAUNDER 173 16. “The Threshold of an Open Window”: Transparency, Opacity, and Social Boundaries in Aurora Floyd LILLIAN NAYDER 188 17. Sensationalizing Victorian Suburbia: Wilkie Collins’s Basil TAMARA S. WAGNER 200 18. Political Persuasion in Mary Braddon’s The Octoroon; or The Lily of Louisiana KIMBERLY HARRISON 212 19. Wilkie Collins’s “Secret Dictate”: The Moonstone as a Response to Imperialist Panic VICKI CORKRAN WILLEY 225 20. Wilkie Collins’s Gwilt-y Conscience: Gender and Colonialism in Armadale MONICA M. YOUNG-ZOOK 234 Works Cited 247 List of Contributors 267 Index 271 H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page vii ᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS WE WOULD like to thank the many people who contributed to the publication of this book. The genesis of this project was a series of panels organized by Richard Fantina at the annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) in Pittsburgh in March 2004. The panels were inspired by Kimberly Harrison’s course on sensation fiction at Florida International University in the summer of 2003. Our first note of thanks must go to NEMLA for providing a forum for these panels. A special note of thanks goes to our contributor, Tamar Heller, who sup- ported the panels from their conception and offered many helpful comments along the way. Tamar went above and beyond any reasonable calls for assistance by reading and commenting on many of the papers presented here. A special note of gratitude goes to Catherine Golden, a panelist at NEMLA and a contributor to this collection, who suggested the book project before it ever occurred to either of us. And thanks go to all who answered the call for papers for the NEMLA Con- ference or were otherwise supportive along the way, including: Elizabeth Ander- man, Ruth Anolik, Julie Barst, Sara Beam-Thomas, Rachel Bowser, Marilyn Brock, Marie Granic, Neil Hultgren, Kirstin Johnson, Stephanie King, Heidi Logan, Idilko Olaaz, Anindyo Roy, Eleanor Salotto, Judith Sanders, Madhudaya Sinha, Anne-Marie Sourbiran, and Aaron Worth. Thanks to Sebastian T. Bach for his article on the panels in the Victorian Studies Bulletin and to Monica Young-Zook for graciously hosting our closing party at NEMLA. This event cemented the already strong solidarity we had developed during our brief stay in Pittsburgh. Many thanks also to Jennifer Carnell for suggesting the cover illustra- tion, “Past and Present I,” by Augustus Egg, and to The Tate Gallery for permis- sion to use it. vii H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page viii viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would also like to extend sincere appreciation to our colleagues at Florida International University and the University of Miami. Kimberly would like to thank Elsie Michie and Sharon Weltman who introduced her to sensation fiction at Louisiana State University. At The Ohio State University Press, editors Sandy Crooms and Heather Lee Miller provided continual support and encouragement for the project. Our anonymous readers gave detailed and careful comments that helped us in revisions. Kimberly would also like to thank Jeremy Rowan for his support and encour- agement, and for reading drafts with a historian’s attention to detail. H&F_intro_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page ix ᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑ INTRODUCTION RICHARD FANTINA AND KIMBERLY HARRISON VICTORIAN SENSATION fiction was the literary rage in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Serialized in periodicals such as Harpers, the novels also enticed readers in America. Today, sensation fiction is showing signs of popular resurgence with Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret airing on Public Television throughout the United States in 2000 and with film adaptations of Wilkie Collins’s novels The Moonstone and Basil released in 1997 and 1998. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of Collins’s The Woman in White premiered in London in 2004, and a $10 million Broadway production opened in fall 2005. These Victorian thrillers, often involving themes such as bigamy, illegitimacy, drug abuse, murder, inheritance scandals, and adultery, captivated Victorians and continue to interest contemporary audiences. While today’s audiences for sensation narratives, whether delivered in print, on the stage, or on television, are unlikely to be shocked by candid depictions of crime and sexuality, Victorian critics frequently viewed sensation fiction as an inherently scandalous genre.1 They decried the controversial content along with the physical and emotional sensations such content produced upon the audience. For example, H. L. Mansel, in his often-cited 1863 review of the genre, notes the novels’ effects upon the nerves and questions “whether the pleasure of a nervous shock is worth the cost of so much morbid anatomy.” Likewise, other critics assailed sensation fiction as “violently opposed to our moral sense”2 and likened it to a “virus [that] is spreading in all directions.”3 Despite the outrage of Victorian critics and churchmen, sensation novels were frequently best sellers. The Woman in White (1860) was so successful that it spawned a host of commercial products such as bonnets and dressing gowns fash- ioned after the dress of its title character. Also Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Aud- ley’s Secret (1861) became so popular that George Eliot envied its sales, admitting ix H&F_intro_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page x x INTRODUCTION that she “sicken[ed] again with despondency” when comparing the commercial success of her recent novels to that of Braddon’s.4 Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood became a household name due to the stunning success of East Lynne, her novel of a wayward, and eventually repentant, wife. Charles Reade, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Rhoda Broughton also gained fame and considerable fortune through their fiction which also became labeled as “sensational.” While some sensation novels, notably the best sellers by Collins, Braddon, and Wood, have remained in print, many others disappeared from public view over the years and are only now being reissued. Within scholarly circles, even The Woman in White for many decades garnered little attention as critics considered sensation fiction the bastard child of classic Victorian realism, something to be read as a curiosity but certainly not to be taken too seriously. T. S. Eliot’s famous appreciation of Collins, for example, amounts to little more than damnation with faint praise, as he refers to the author as a “man of talent,” opposing him to Dick- ens, the “man of genius.”5 And among some guardians of the Western canon, the sensation genre even today remains critically suspect and inferior in comparison to “classic” Victorian realism.
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