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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Sensationalism in Britain and Antebellum America
2.1. A Brief History of Sensationalism
2.2. Definition and Key Features
2.2.1. Journalism
2.2.2. Fiction
2.3. Criticism and Defence
3. Elitist Sensationalism a laBlackwood’s
3.1.Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
3.2. TheBlackwood’sSensation Tale
4. Edgar Allan Poe’s Sensationalism
4.1. Poe and Parody
4.2.Blackwood’sParodies in Psyche Zenobia’s tales
4.3. Exploitation of the Genre in “The Premature Burial”
5. Hawthorne’s Allegoric Sensationalism
5.1. Hawthorne and Sensationalism
5.2. Treatment and Transformation of Sensational Themes
5.2.1. Psychological Sensationalism in “Wakefield”
5.2.2. Sensational Material in “Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent”
6. Conclusion
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- Janina Wedig (Author), 2013, From Physic to Psychic. The Treatment of Sensationalism in Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/266364
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