Creating character : theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction /

This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ifill, Helena (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2018.
Series:Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv18b5pkf
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Self-control, willpower and monomania; Basil and No Name; John Marchmont's Legacy; Part II Heredity and degeneration; The Lady Lisle; Armadale; Part III Education, environment and circumstance; Man and Wife; Lost for Love; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.