The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel

by Maia McAleavey

Book Overview

The courtship plot dominates accounts of the Victorian novel, but this innovative study turns instead to a narrative phenomenon that upends its familiar conventions: the bigamy plot. In hundreds of novels, plays, and poems published in Victorian Great Britain, husbands or wives thought dead suddenly reappear to their newly remarried spouses. In the sensation fiction of Braddon and Collins, these bigamous revelations lead to bribery, arson, and murder,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107501342
• ISBN13: 9781107501348
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"