Sarah Yoon is a Lecturer at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, in South Korea. She holds an MA in English Literature from Yonsei University. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and Korean-English translated novels. Her research has been published by international journals, such as Brontë Studies and Critique. The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels is her first book.

• Introduction: The ambivalent detective in Victorian sensation novels 1 Historical contexts: Police reform, marriage, empire, and the periodical press 2 Early detectives in Dickens’s Household Words stories and Martin Chuzzlewit 3 The detective as villain and hero in Dickens’s Bleak House 4 Detectives of the late 1850s and early 1860s: Russell, Collins, and Wood 5 Early detectives in Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent and The Black Band 6 Between gentleman and detective: Masculine negotiations in Lady Audley’s Secret 7 Oriental mystique and spying servants in Braddon’s Aurora Floyd 8 Female detectives: Ware (Forrester), Hayward, and Collins’s The Law and the Lady 9 From ambivalence to rationality: Detection in Collins’s Armadale and The Moonstone 10 After sensation novels: Imperial themes and detectives in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Doyle’s stories Coda

Sarah Yoon is a Lecturer at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, in South Korea. She holds an MA in English Literature from Yonsei University. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and Korean-English translated novels. Her research has been published by international journals, such as Brontë Studies and Critique. The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels is her first book.

• Introduction: The ambivalent detective in Victorian sensation novels 1 Historical contexts: Police reform, marriage, empire, and the periodical press 2 Early detectives in Dickens’s Household Words stories and Martin Chuzzlewit 3 The detective as villain and hero in Dickens’s Bleak House 4 Detectives of the late 1850s and early 1860s: Russell, Collins, and Wood 5 Early detectives in Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent and The Black Band 6 Between gentleman and detective: Masculine negotiations in Lady Audley’s Secret 7 Oriental mystique and spying servants in Braddon’s Aurora Floyd 8 Female detectives: Ware (Forrester), Hayward, and Collins’s The Law and the Lady 9 From ambivalence to rationality: Detection in Collins’s Armadale and The Moonstone 10 After sensation novels: Imperial themes and detectives in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Doyle’s stories Coda

Sarah Yoon is a Lecturer at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, in South Korea. She holds an MA in English Literature from Yonsei University. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and Korean-English translated novels. Her research has been published by international journals, such as Brontë Studies and Critique. The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels is her first book.

• Introduction: The ambivalent detective in Victorian sensation novels 1 Historical contexts: Police reform, marriage, empire, and the periodical press 2 Early detectives in Dickens’s Household Words stories and Martin Chuzzlewit 3 The detective as villain and hero in Dickens’s Bleak House 4 Detectives of the late 1850s and early 1860s: Russell, Collins, and Wood 5 Early detectives in Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent and The Black Band 6 Between gentleman and detective: Masculine negotiations in Lady Audley’s Secret 7 Oriental mystique and spying servants in Braddon’s Aurora Floyd 8 Female detectives: Ware (Forrester), Hayward, and Collins’s The Law and the Lady 9 From ambivalence to rationality: Detection in Collins’s Armadale and The Moonstone 10 After sensation novels: Imperial themes and detectives in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Doyle’s stories Coda