ABSTRACT
After focusing on how the act of narrating helps the characters of sensation novels express and sometimes cope with their mental distress, the author wish here to focus on a moral material aspect relating to the subject of the characters mental health. All four characters become obsessed with this pursuit, which is due to the lack of domestic belonging they experience at the beginning of the novels and to their yearning for more stability. He argue here that the lack of a proper grounding in any stable domestic environment causes these middle-class male and female characters to be constantly active and pushes their drive for property ownership ever further. The aristocracy and landed gentry were no longer the only classes to be able to access property ownership, and towards the end of the century, a large proportion of the eclectic middle class was defining itself through property ownership.
