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Ifill, Helena

 
9781526171818: Creating character: Theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction (Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century)
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ISBN 10: 1526171813 ISBN 13: 9781526171818
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2023

Sinopsis

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 Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen -- .

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

Innovative readings of Braddon’s and Collins’s sensation novels – some of them canonical, others less well-known – demonstrate how they reflect, employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity,degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. The book shows the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors that are as much reliant on chance as on the efforts of the people who try to exert control over an individual’s development. Their works raise challenging questions about responsibility and self-determinism and, as the analyses of these texts reveal, demonstrate an acute awareness that the way in which character formation is understood fundamentally influences the way people (both in fiction and reality) are perceived, judged and treated.

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

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
1526171813
ISBN 13 
9781526171818
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Número de páginas
242
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