Aurora Floyd
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Aurora Floyd
(Broadview literary texts)
Broadview Literary Texts, c1998
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注記
"Mary Erizabeth Braddon: a brief chronology": p. 40-41
Bibliography: p. 631-632
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as 'sensation fiction'-a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, Ellen Wood's East Lynne, and Dickens's Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser's magazine asserted that "a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel."
The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one's family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora's bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditious divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. "What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record," wrote Margaret Oliphant.
Braddon's text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.
目次
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology
Aurora Floyd
Appendix A: Victorian Femininity: The Stable, the Home, and the Fast Young Lady
"Fast Young Ladies" (Punch)
"Six Reasons Why Ladies Should Not Hunt" (The Field)
"Muscular Education" (Temple Bar)
John Ruskin, "Of Queens' Gardens" (Sesame and Lilies) (1865)
Appendix B: Reviews and Responses
H.L. Mansel, "Sensation Novels" (Quarterly Review)
"The Archbishop of York on Works of Fiction" (The Times)
W. Fraser Rae, "Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon" (North British Review)
Henry James, "Miss Braddon" (The Nation)
Margaret Oliphant, "Novels" (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
George Augustus Sala, "The Cant of Modern Criticism" (Belgravia)
George Augustus Sala, "On the 'Sensational' in Literature and Art" (Belgravia)
"Sensation Novels" (Punch)
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