UID:
almahu_9949701588602882
Format:
1 online resource (282 pages)
ISBN:
9789401208543
Series Statement:
DQR studies in literature ; 50
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 lesser known fiction, including her first published novel, The Trail of the Serpent , as well as some of her twentieth-century fiction. The first collection of essays on Braddon to appear since 1999, this volume sheds new light on the 'Queen of the circulating libraries'.
Note:
Preliminary material /
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INTRODUCTION. BLURRING BOUNDARIES: THE FICTION OF M.E. BRADDON /
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TO THE MAD-HOUSE BORN: THE ETHICS OF EXTERIORITY IN LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET /
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IMPERIAL ATTITUDES IN LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET /
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"TO GO BOLDLY WHERE NOWOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE": ALICIA AUDLEY AND THE NEWWOMAN /
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HOMELESS IN THE HOME: INVENTION, INSTABILITY, AND INSANITY IN THE DOMESTIC SPACES OF M.E. BRADDON AND L.M. ALCOTT /
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"DRINK IT UP DEAR; ITWILL DO YOU GOOD": CRIME, TOXICOLOGY, AND THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT /
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SENSATIONAL BILDUNG? INFANTILIZATION AND FEMALE MATURATION IN BRADDON'S 1860S NOVELS /
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TO "SERVE GOD AND MAMMON": BRADDON AND LITERARY TRANSGRESSION /
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION: GENDER, MORALS AND NATIONAL CULTURE IN BRADDON'S NOVELS /
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RE-PLOTTING INHERITANCE: THE TRIANGULATION OF LEGACIES AND AFFINITIES IN THE FATAL THREE /
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"IF I READ HER RIGHT": TEXTUAL SECRETS IN THOU ART THE MAN (1894) /
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SENSATIONALISM ON TRIAL: COURTROOM DRAMA AND THE IMAGE OF RESPECTABILITY IN HIS DARLING SIN /
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"THE STAGE! OH, FLORA, THE VERY IDEA FRIGHTENS ME!": REPRESENTATIONS OF VICTORIAN PROFESSIONAL THEATRE IN RUPERT GODWIN AND A LOST EDEN /
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BIBLIOGRAPHY /
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /
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INDEX /
Additional Edition:
Print version: New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2012, ISBN 9789042035799
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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