The Editor PAMELA K. GILBERT is the Albert Brick Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Florida. She has published widely in the areas of Victorian literature, cultural studies, and the history of medicine. Her books include Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels (1997), Mapping the Victorian Social Body (2004), and Cholera and Nation (2008).

"Mapping a field still in development, the volume succeeds in imagining exceptionally varied directions for future research, and in conveying an ardent sense of collaboration." (Victorian Studies, Summer 2013) "All in all, A Companion to Sensation Fiction offers a vast critical panorama that covers almost all features and nuances of the sensational phenomenon, and also succeeds in offering clues for future approaches ... An indispensable addition to the ongoing debate on sensation fiction, and on Victorian culture at large.”  (Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, 1 August 2013)"Students will find that the collection introduces new information - issues and approaches - in straightforward language; specialists will appreciate the work as both a reference on movements within sensation literature and a thoughtful blueprint for future work in the genre.”  (Choice, 1 February 2012)

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Pamela K. GilbertPart I: Before Sensation, 1830–1860 111 “The Aristocracy and Upholstery”: The Silver Fork Novel 13Ellen Miller Casey2 Newgate Novels 26Edward Jacobs and Manuela Mourão3 “Literature of the Kitchen”: Cheap Serial Fiction of the 1840s and 1850s 38Andrew King4 Melodrama 54Rohan McWilliam5 Sensation Theater 67Heidi J. Holder6 Gothic 81Patrick R. O’Malley7 Realism and Sensation Fiction 94Daniel Brown8 Poetry and Sensation 107Kirstie BlairPart II: Reading Individual Authors and Texts, 1860–1880 1219 Mary Elizabeth Braddon 123Lyn Pykett10 Lady Audley’s Secret: How Does She Do It? Sensation Fiction’s Technologically Minded Villainesses 134Louise Lee11 “Going in a little for the subjective”: Textual and Moral Performance in The Doctor’s Wife 147Richard Nemesvari12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd 160Amy J. Robinson13 Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Joshua Haggard’s Daughter 172Anne-Marie Beller14 Wilkie Collins and Risk 184Daniel Martin15 The Woman in White and the New Sensation 196Elizabeth Langland16 Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco: The Substances of Memory in The Moonstone 208Susan Zieger17 Ouida 220Jane Jordan18 Under Two Flags 232Natalie Schroeder and Ronald A. Schroeder19 Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood 244Andrew Mangham20 Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne 257Marlene Tromp21 Sheridan Le Fanu 269Anna Maria Jones22 Rhoda Broughton 281Tamar Heller23 Charles Reade 293Tom Bragg24 Ideologically Challenging: Florence Marryat and Sensation Fiction 306Greta Depledge25 Edmund Hodgson Yates 319Andrew Radford26 Sensational Variations on the Domestic Romance: Charlotte M. Brame and Mary Cecil Hay in the Family Herald 332Graham Law27 Amelia B. Edwards 349Anne-Marie Beller28 Dora Russell 361Janice M. Allan29 Short Fiction 374Brittany RobertsPart III: Topics in Scholarship 38730 Critical Responses to Sensation 389Deborah Wynne31 Gender and Sensation 401Emily Allen32 Queer Sensation 414Ross G. Forman33 Class and Race in Sensation Fiction 430Patrick Brantlinger34 The Empire and Sensation 442Lillian Nayder35 Sensation Fiction and Religion 455Mark Knight36 Sensation and Science 466Susan David Bernstein37 Medicine and Sensation 481Meegan Kennedy38 Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction 493Martha Stoddard Holmes and Mark Mossman39 The Law and Sensation 507Jane Jordan40 Sensation and Detection 516Heather Milton41 “Come Buy, Come Buy”: Sensation Fiction in the Context of Consumer and Commodity Culture 528Kimberly Harrison42 Sensation and Illustration 540Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge43 The Pre-Raphaelite Realism of the Sensation Novel 559Sophia AndresPart IV: After Sensation: Legacies 57744 The Legacy of Sensation Fiction: Bodily Power in the New Woman Novel 579Molly Youngkin45 Corelli’s Religious Trilogy: Barabbas, The Sorrows of Satan, and The Master-Christian 591R. Brandon Kershner46 Realism after Sensation: Meredith, Hardy, Gissing 603Tabitha Sparks47 Aestheticism and Sensation 614Talia Schaffer48 Neo-Victorian and Pastiche 627Grace MooreIndex 639