Published on 10th August 2020 in Calls for Contributions to Academic Journals and Collective Volumes, ESSE Messenger CFPs, ESSE Messenger Matters
Theme: “Make ’em cry, make ’em laugh, make ’em wait”: Sensation, mystery and detection in the Victorian novel
Deadline: 15 November 2020
The ESSE Messenger invites contributions that address:
- reasons and factors that lead to the popularity of such kind of novels;
- construction and narrative techniques of sensational plots;
- treatment of sensational characters;
- contribution of these novels to the creation of popular fiction and reasons for them becoming bestsellers;
- contribution of Victorian writers such as Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle to the prosperity of such novels;
- reception of such novels by the Victorian reading public and critics in the context of the imposed belief in morality and order, expected aesthetic value and worldview of Victorian realism;
- reception of such creations by the reading public today and their echoes in contemporary fiction.
Details here.