Category:Sensation novels
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Articles relating to sensation novels, a literary genre of fiction that achieved peak popularity in Great Britain in the 1860s and 1870s.[1] Its literary forebears included the melodramatic novels and the Newgate novels, which focused on tales woven around criminal biographies; it also drew on the Gothic, romance, as well as mass market genres.
- I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 844