This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its m

Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short s

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in