Download or read book Sensational Designs written by Jane Tompkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-05-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study of literature away from the small group of critically approved texts that have dominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of texts ignored or denigrated by the literary academy. Sensational Designs challenges comfortable assumptions about what makes a literary work a "classic."