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Beyond sensation : Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context /

Other Authors: Gilbert, Pamela K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Braddon, M. E. > 1837-1915 > Criticism and interpretation.
Braddon, M. E. > 1837-1915.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, > 1837-1915.
Braddon, M. E. > 1837-1915 > Critique et interprétation.
Braddon, M. E. > 1835-1915.
Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > History > 19th century. > England
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Sensationalism in literature.
Roman psychologique anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Histoire > 19e siècle. > Angleterre
Roman familial anglais > Histoire et critique.
Sensationnalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Domestic fiction, English.
Psychological fiction, English.
England.
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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.

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