The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s (Princeton Legacy Library): 713 - Softcover

Hughes, Winifred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691615578 ISBN 13: 9780691615578

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its practitioners, and its implications, and reveals its significance both for the mid-Victorian consciousness and for the writers and readers of today. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0691615578
• ISBN 13: 9780691615578
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222