SOURCE: "Sensation, Sex, and the 1860's," in The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women's Reading, 1835-1880, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1981, pp. 73-99.
In the essay that follows, Mitchell explores the ways in which sensation novels—particularly George Meredith's Rhoda Fleming and Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies—reflect and react to changing roles for women in the Victorian period.
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