Aurora Floyd (Oxford World's Classics)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192837271 (0192837273)
ASIN: 0192837273
Publish date: 1999-06
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 498
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
19th Century,
English Literature,
Gothic,
Fiction
From the introduction by Jennifer Uglow, Canterbury 1983: When sensation novels burst upon a quiescent England these novels became immediate best sellers, surpassing all previous book sales records. However, high brow critics writing in academic journals of the day decried the phenomenon and critici...