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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781444324174.ch41
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https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444324174.ch41
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Keywords

"sensation fiction," group of novels in the 1860s - applying to works written after 1870, Andrew Maunder's Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction - forgotten authors of sensation narratives, Publishing strategies, serialization helping to increase public's interest in sensation fiction, References to fallen women in sensation fiction - willingness to entertain idea of union with the sacred, Sensation fiction, Sensation fiction, and focus on works of familiar novelists - Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, Sensation fiction, engaging with biblical voices - marginalized by religious communities, Smith, contemplating a sensational rewrite - of Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, The The Bible, not forgotten in a world of sensation fiction - fiction drawing on and engaging with biblical tropes, The Woman in White (1859-60), novel bringing sensation fiction - to the attention of the middle classes

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Sensation Fiction and the Bible

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Published

Mark Knight

Publication date	2010
Host publication	The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
Editors	Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, Jonathan Roberts, Christopher Rowland
Publisher	Wiley Blackwell
Pages	577-586
Number of pages	10
ISBN (print)	9781405131605
<mark>Original language</mark>	English