Lyn Pykett

Recently, feminist critics including Lyn Pykett and Ann Cvetkovich have led analysis of the previously derided genre of sensation fiction. Pykett is interested in its use of madness and other strategies to figure the dangerous...

Margaret Oliphant 's critique of the sensation novel in 1867 relied heavily on attacking MEB 's reputation. The best she would say was that some of Braddon's works deserved some of their success. Braddon's sole...

Its circulation was enormous. In its three-volume form it went through eight issues in its first three months, although reviewers implied that early announcements of these new editions were a form of puffery. Bibliographer Michael Sadleir

Lyn Pykett reads this novel as anticipating D. H. Lawrence 's The Rainbow (1915).