Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction.

Cox takes issue with the recurring assumption that neo-Victorianism's agenda can only be promoted by literary fiction that shows awareness of the past. Disentangling sensation fiction from the obscurity to which the selective appreciation of its legacy had hitherto engulfed it, Cox felicitously restores popular fiction's "critical value" (174, 8). With these observations, Cox's extensive exploration of neo-sensation fiction finds a place within neo-Victorian scholarship, complementing and elucidating existing reflections on the relationship between past and present, and the characteristic traits of each period. [Extracted from the article]

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