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The neo-sensation novel: a contemporary genre in the Victorian tradition.
From: Philological Quarterly
Date: 19950101
Author:Marsh, Kelly A.
The publication of neo-sensation novels during the late 1980s and early 1990s has revived a popular genre of the 1860s, the sensation novels. Unlike their 19th-century counterparts, however, Graham Swift, Margaret Drabble, A.S. Byatt, Jane Smiley and Richard Powers recreate the Victorian form through pastiche. In doing so, they silently challenge the post-structuralist theory of literary postmodernism.
The sensation novel, popularized in the 1860s by Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and their contemporaries, has recently reappeared in fiction of the kind generally considered "serious ...
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