Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses

by Laurie Garrison

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349301027
• ISBN13: 9781349301027
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"