Description: Further DetailsTitle: Creating CharacterCondition: NewSubtitle: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation FictionISBN-10: 1526171813EAN: 9781526171818ISBN: 9781526171818Publisher: Manchester University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/30/2023Description: 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 seven sensation novels explore how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of ‘nature’ versus ‘nurture’, Braddon and Collins show the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the intersections of established and developing, conservative and radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity could be made and modified.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmAuthor: Helena IfillGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth CenturyItem Width: 13mmRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Creating Character
Title: Creating Character
Subtitle: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction
ISBN-10: 1526171813
EAN: 9781526171818
ISBN: 9781526171818
Release Date: 05/30/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Book Title: Creating Character : Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre: Literary Criticism
Author: Helena Ifill
Item Length: 8.5 in
Book Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Ser.
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
