The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved its peak popularity in Great Britain from the mid-1850s to the 1890s, centring on taboo material which was shocking to its readers. The material itself was a means of musing on contemporary social anxieties.
The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved its peak popularity in Great Britain from the mid-1850s to the 1890s, centring on taboo material which was shocking to its readers. The material itself was a means of musing on contemporary social anxieties.
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