Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*1. The Sensation Paradox, pg. 1*2. The Sensation Novel and Victorian Theories of Fiction, pg. 38*3. Charles Reade and the Breakdown of Melodrama, pg. 73*4. The Wickedness of Woman: M. E. Braddon and Mrs. Henry Wood, pg. 106*5. Wilkie Collins: The Triumph of the Detective, pg. 137*6. Influences of the Sensation Novel, pg. 166*Notes, pg. 193*Index, pg. 207