Even though 'sensation novels' were a minor subgenre of British fiction that flourished in the 1860s only to die out a decade or two later, they live on in several forms of popular culture, obviously so in their most direct offspring - modern mystery, detective, and suspense fiction and films.
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Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)
2005, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)
September 2, 2005, Oxford University Press, USA
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"Even though 'sensation novels' were a minor subgenre of British fiction that flourished in the 1860s only to die out a decade or two later, they live on in several forms of popular culture, obviously so in their most direct offspring - modern mystery, detective, and suspense fiction and films."
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