Acknowledgements Preface PART I: TAXONOMIES OF STIMULATION: SCIENCE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE SENSATION NOVEL DEBATE The Invention of the Sensation Novel: Three Early Reviewers The Debate Intensifies: Responses to the Early Reviewers Gender and Sexuality in Parodies of the Sensation Novel Debate PART II: MAGNETIC SCIENCE AND THE SENSATION NOVEL: STIMULATING BODIES, SENSES AND SOULS The Interrelated Histories of Mesmerism, Spiritualism and the Sensation...