The Palpable Legacy of Mid-Victorian Sensation Fiction: Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002) and its Dialogue with Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860)

This article first sketches out the legacy of The Woman in White and the sensation novel of the 1860s from the late-Victorian period to the present day. Then, in the second part of the essay, Sarah Waters’s novel Fingersmith (2002) is used as an exemplary text which illustrates some of the ways in w...

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Main Author: Catherine Delyfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2025-04-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/16270
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