I’ll be teaching a new MA course on Sensation and Gothic fiction at the University of Amsterdam next year, and I would love to hear suggestions about what Victorian novels I should include. I am also hoping the course will help me answer some of the questions I have about the differences between these two [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sensation Novels’
Sensation vs. Gothic
Posted in Tara MacDonald, tagged gothic, Sensation Novels, teaching on May 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Grace and the “Material Media” of Hardy’s Desperate Remedies
Posted in Daniel Martin, tagged Grace, Media, Sensation Novels, Thomas Hardy on November 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Thomas Hardy likes graceful women, but none are as deliberately graceful as Cytherea Graye in his first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871). In a scene rife with small-town prying eyes and the unconscious self-caricaturizing of town locals displaying their cultivation through the organization of a Shakespeare reading, the beautiful Cytherea enters a room – her [...]
