A specialist in fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, Pykett (emerita, English, Aberystwyth U., Wales) updates and expands her 1994 The Sensation Novel from The Woman in White to The
Moonstone. The new edition takes into account new critical studies of particular works and authors; a broadening of the academic definition of the genre; and the fresh audiences brought by
television, radio, film, and stage adaptations. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation �穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
