Beyond sensation Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context

Beyond sensation Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context / edited by Marlene Tromp, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie.

"Mary Elizabeth Braddon, journal editor and bestselling author of more than eighty novels during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a key figure in the Victorian literary scene. This volume brings together new essays from a variety of perspectives that illuminate both the ri...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tromp, Marlene, 1966-, Gilbert, Pamela K., Haynie, Aeron, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
Series:Ebsco e-book purchased.
Subjects:
Braddon, M. E. > (Mary Elizabeth), > 1837-1915 > Criticism and interpretation.
Braddon, M. E. > (Mary Elizabeth), > 1837-1915. > Lady Audley's secret.
Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Sensationalism in literature.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
This was purchased from Ebsco with a single user license.
Table of Contents:
  • Enclosure acts : framing women's bodies in Braddon's Lady Audley's secret / Elizabeth Langland
  • Braddon's commentaries on the trials and legal secrets of Audley court / Gail Turley Houston
  • Rebellious Sepoys and bigamous wives : the Indian mutiny and marriage law reform in Lady Audley's secret / Lillian Nayder
  • Marketing sensation: Lady Audley's secret and consumer culture / Katherine Montwieler
  • "An idle handle that was never turned, and a lazy rope so rotten" : the decay of the country estate in Lady Audley's secret / Aeron Haynie
  • The espaliered girl : pruning the docile body in Aurora Floyd / Jeni Curtis
  • The dangerous woman : M.E. Braddon's sensational (en)gendering of domestic law / Marlene Tromp
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Australia : queen of the colonies / Toni Johnson-Woods
  • "Our author" : Braddon in the provincial weeklies / Jennifer Carnell and Graham Law
  • Misalliance : M.E. Braddon's writing for the stage / Heidi J. Holder
  • Braddon and victorian realism : Joshua Haggard's daughter / Pamela K. Gilbert
  • Fiction becomes her : representations of female character in Mary Braddon's The Doctor's wife / Tabitha Sparks
  • "Go and marry your doctor" : fetishism and "redundance" at the fin de sïcle and the vampires of "Good Lady Ducayne" / Lauren M.E. Goodlad
  • Spectral politics : M.E. Braddon and the spirits of social reform / Eve M. Lynch
  • Electra-fying the female sleuth : detecting the father in Eleanor's victory and Thou art the man / Heidi H. Johnson
  • Afterword / Lyn Pykett.

Similar Items