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The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
McAleavey, Maia (Boston College, Massachusetts)
The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
McAleavey, Maia (Boston College, Massachusetts)
A study exploring the prevalence of bigamy as a popular plot in Victorian fiction that upends familiar categories and revises our sense of the period's social and narrative conventions. It features the innovative use of periodical archives, an exhaustive appendix, and detailed close readings of familiar and unfamiliar novels.
256 pages, 4 b/w illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 18, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781107103160 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Genre | Cultural Region > British Isles |
Pages | 260 |
Dimensions | 161 × 236 × 22 mm · 520 g |