Abstract:Featuring crimes such as murder, bigamy, or adultery in seemingly proper middle‐class homes, the sensation novel of the 1860s and early 1870s tantalized readers with clues and leads of false identities, hidden pasts, and uncanny doubles. Appalled Victorian critics accused sensational writers such as Wilkie Collins, Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood of catering to popular appetite, preaching to the nerves, undermining morality, and aligning the reading matter of the kitchen with that of the dra… Show more
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