Beyond Sensation : Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context

, by Tromp, Marlene; Gilbert, Pamela K.; Haynie, Aeron

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ISBN: 9780791444191 | 0791444198
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/2000

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This volume brings together essays from a variety of literary perspectives which examine the works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a journal editor, author of over 80 novels during the Victorian period, and best known for her novels, Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd. The authors, representing a diverse range of academic and cultural perspectives, explore Braddon's work and discuss issues of gender, imperialism, colonialism, literay genres, and commodity culture.

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword

James R. Kincaid

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

Marlene Tromp

Pamela K. Gilbert

Aeron Haynie

I. Lady Audley's Secret

Enclosure Acts: Framing Women's Bodies in Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret

(14)

Elizabeth Langland

Braddon's Commentaries on the Trials and Legal Secrets of Audley Court

(14)

Gail Turley Houston

Rebellious Sepoys and Bigamous Wives: The Indian Mutiny and Marriage Law Reform in Lady Audley's Secret

(12)

Lillian Nayder

Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley's Secret and Consumer Culture

(20)

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

(14)

Aeron Haynie

II. Aurora Floyd

The Espaliered Girl: Pruning the Docile Body in Aurora Floyd

(16)

Jeni Curtis

The Dangerous Woman: M. E. Braddon's Sensational (En) gendering of Domestic Law

(18)

Marlene Tromp

III. Braddon in the Literary Marketplace

Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Australia: Queen of the Colonies

111

(16)

Toni Johnson-Woods

``Our Author'': Braddon in the Provincial Weeklies

127

(38)

Jennifer Carnell

Graham Law

Misalliance: M. E. Braddon's Writing for the Stage

165

(18)

Heidi J. Holder

IV. Genre and Culture

Braddon and Victorian Realism: Joshua Haggard's Daughter

183

(4)

Pamela K. Gilbert

Fiction Becomes Her: Representations of Female Character in Mary Braddon's The Doctor's Wife

187

(24)

Tabitha Sparks

``Go and Marry Your Doctor'': Fetishism and ``Redundance'' at the Fin de Siecle and the Vampires of ``Good Lady Ducayne''

211

(24)

Lauren M. E. Goodlad

Spectral Politics: M. E. Braddon and the Spirits of Social Reform

235

(20)

Eve M. Lynch

Electra-fying the Female Sleuth: Detecting the Father in Eleanor's Victory and Thou Art the Man

255

(22)

Heidi H. Johnson

Afterword

277

(4)

Lyn Pykett

Select Bibliography

281

(6)

Contributors

287

(4)

Index

291

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