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Sensationalism made real : the role of realism in the production of sensational affect (2015)
Journal Article
Allan, J. (2015). Sensationalism made real : the role of realism in the production of sensational affect. Victorian Literature and Culture, 43(01), 97-112. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150314000369

Like all complicated relationships, that between realism and sensationalism has been subject to a good deal of rumour and speculation. In what might be described as the pair's first critical encounter – in an 1852 joint review of W. M. Thackeray's Th... Read More about Sensationalism made real : the role of realism in the production of sensational affect.

A 'base and spurious thing': Reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857) (2011)
Journal Article
Allan, J. (2011). A 'base and spurious thing': Reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857). Critical Survey, 23(1), 8-24. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2011.230102

Concentrating on Ellen Wood’s Parkwater, a little-known New Monthly Magazine serial, this article attempts to complicate the long-standing construction of Wood as a ‘quiet sensationalist’. It argues that Wood’s serial was self-consciously appealin... Read More about A 'base and spurious thing': Reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857).