Victorian Sensation Novels and the News

Описание: 5:07Jessica Valdez on the relationship between Victorian sensation novels and the news. Fiction’s close scrutiny of real-life news stories drawn from the news informed sensation novels. Commonly known as "the newspaper novel," sensation novels of the 1860s took their plots from police news, shipping news, and even the Agony Column, a section of personal advertisements appearing at the front of Victorian newspapers.

At a moment when novels and newspapers were both claiming to narrate a particular version of their present moment, characters in sensation novels wondered whether newspapers provided information and entertainment, or whether they also carried within them augurs of destiny.

Opening: Jacquelyn Sundberg, McGill Library
5:07 - Comments: Nathalie Cooke, AD ROAAr and Professor of English, McGill University
10:45 - Introduction: Tabitha Sparks, Professor of English, McGill University
12:15 - Presentation: Jessica Valdez, Visiting Belcher Fellow in Victorian Studies at St. Hugh’s College Oxford. Associate professor in English at the University of Hong Kong, but she will leave HKU to become a lecturer at the University of East Anglia in September 2022
45:36 - Q and A