Lyn Pykett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyn Pykett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Pykett |
| SIGNATURE | PYKETT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The changing faces and spaces of V ictorian studies
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction
In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'se…
Lady Audley’s Secret
It only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court.’ When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley’s past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael’s nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find him, and to unearth the truth. His quest reveals a …
The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel
This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context
The Material Turn in Victorian Studies
The Victorians were fascinated with objects and things – but recent scholarship has proved equally fascinated with this Victorian obsession. Examining the rise of the ‘commodity’ in Victorian culture, this article goes on to trace how consumerism, semiotics and the rise of cultural studies have provided new approaches to Victorian culture and commodification
The 'Improper' Feminine
Introductory Note Part One: The 'Improper Feminine' Part Two: The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine Part Three: Breaking Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman Conclusion: Reading Out Women's Writing Notes and References Index
The century's daughters
The Material Turn in Victorian Studies
The Victorians were fascinated with objects and things – but recent scholarship has proved equally fascinated with this Victorian obsession. Examining the rise of the ‘commodity’ in Victorian culture, this article goes on to trace how consumerism, semiotics and the rise of cultural studies have provided new approaches to Victorian culture and commodification
The century's daughters
The 'Improper' Feminine
Introductory Note Part One: The 'Improper Feminine' Part Two: The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine Part Three: Breaking Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman Conclusion: Reading Out Women's Writing Notes and References Index
The Material Turn in Victorian Studies
The Victorians were fascinated with objects and things – but recent scholarship has proved equally fascinated with this Victorian obsession. Examining the rise of the ‘commodity’ in Victorian culture, this article goes on to trace how consumerism, semiotics and the rise of cultural studies have provided new approaches to Victorian culture and commodification
The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel
This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context
Lady Audley’s Secret
It only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court.’ When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley’s past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael’s nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find him, and to unearth the truth. His quest reveals a …
The changing faces and spaces of V ictorian studies
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction
In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'se…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sensation (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · Citation (2 works)