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Creating character: Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction (Interventions Rethinking the Nineteenth Century) - Hardcover

Buch 4 von 23: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

Ifill, Helena

 
9781784995133: Creating character: Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction (Interventions Rethinking the Nineteenth Century)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1784995134 ISBN 13: 9781784995133
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2018

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Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction

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Helena Ifill is a member of the School of English at the University of Sheffield

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Creating character explores the range of ways in which the two leadingsensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins,engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about how personality is formed, and theextent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others.

Innovative readings of Braddon’s and Collins’ssensation novels – some of them canonical, others less well-known – demonstratehow they reflect, employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity,degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and socialcircumstance. The book shows the creation of character to be a complexinterplay of internal and external factors that are as much reliant on chanceas on the efforts of the people who try to exert control over an individual’sdevelopment. Their works raise challenging questions about responsibility andself-determinism and, as the analyses of these texts reveal, demonstrate anacute awareness that the way in which character formation is understoodfundamentally influences the way people (both in fiction and reality) areperceived, judged and treated.

Drawing on material from a variety of genres, including Victorian medical textbooks,scientific and sociological treatises, specialist and popular periodicalliterature, Creating character shows how sensation authors situatedthemselves at the intersections of established and developing thought about howidentity could be made and modified.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784995134
ISBN 13 
9781784995133
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
242
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