Format:
1 Online-Ressource (v, 282 pages)
ISBN:
9789401208543
Series Statement:
DQR studies in literature 50
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian period, remains best known for her sensation fiction, but over the course of a long career contributed to a multitude of literary genres, working as a journalist, short story writer and editor, as well as authoring more than eighty novels. This exciting new collection of essays reappraises Braddon?s work and offers a series of new perspectives on her literary productions. The volume is divided into two parts: the first considers Braddon?s seminal sensation novel, Lady Audley?s Secret ; the second examines some of her les
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; IntroductionBlurring Boundaries: The Fiction of M.E. Braddon; I: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET; To the Mad-House Born: The Ethics of Exteriority in Lady Audley's Secret; Imperial Attitudes in Lady Audley's Secret; "To Go Boldly Where No woman Has Gone Before": Alicia Audley and the New Woman; Homelessness in the Home: Invention, Instabilityand Insanity in the Domestic Spaces of ME. Braddonand L.M Alcott; II: BEYOND LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET; "Drink It Up Dear
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It Will Do You Good":Crime, Toxicology, and The Trail of the SerpentSensational Bildung? Infantilization and FemaleMaturation in Braddon's 1860s Novels; To "Serve God and Mammon":Braddon and Literary Transgression; The French Connection: Gender, Moralsand National Culture in Braddon's Novels; Re-Plotting Inheritance: The Triangulationof Legacies and Affinities in The Fatal Three; "If I Read Her Right": Textual Secretsin Thou Art the Man (1894); Sensationalism on Trial: Courtroom Dramaand the Image of Respectability in His Darling Sin
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"The Stage! Oh, Flora, the Very Idea Frightens Me!":Representations of Professional Theatre inRupert Godwin and A Lost EdenBibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042035799
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283656884
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781283656887
Additional Edition:
Print version New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth 1835-1915
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DOI:
10.1163/9789401208543
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