Research Catalog

Title

Black swine in the sewers of Hampstead : beneath the surface of Victorian sensationalism / Thomas Boyle.

Author

Boyle, Thomas, 1939-

Publication

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1989.

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Details

Description

xii, 273 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Boyle investigates how the Victorian Sensation novels got many of their themes from actual newspaper stories written in mid-19th century England.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Sensationalism in literature
• Crime in literature
• Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Crime > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism
• Crime
• Detective and mystery stories, English
• English fiction
• Popular culture
• Englisch
• Journalismus
• Kriminalität
• Sensationsroman
• Sexualität
• Geschichte (1850-1870)
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p.247-258.

Contents

Bawdy Victorians -- Seeds of paradise -- Brutal Victorians -- Sensuality and slavery -- Newgate to newspapers: establishing a system -- A pre-Victoria media murder -- Bell Macdonald's 1840s -- The devil in patent leather boots -- A very special correspondence: I. The graves are opened II. The hanging -- Adventures of a scholar-detective -- "Morbid depression alternating with excitement" -- Critical passions: I. Connections -- Critical Passions II. Missed connections -- The fishy extremities of Lady Audley's secret -- Armadale: "A sensation novel with a vengeance" -- "Green tea": a forerunner of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- A "mysterious something between sensation and thought" -- Black swine in the sewers of Hampstead -- Happy endings.

ISBN

• 0670813249
• 9780670813247

LCCN

87040665

OCLC

• ocm18959531
• 18959531
• SCSB-1733927

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library