New perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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New perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon
（DQR studies in literature, 50）
Rodopi, 2012
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Bibliography: p. [251]-265
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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'.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Jessica Cox: Introduction: Blurring Boundaries: The Fiction of M.E. Braddon New Perspectives on Lady Audley's Secret Tabitha Sparks: To the Mad-House Born: The Ethics of Exteriority in Lady Audley's Secret Nancy Knowles and Katherine Hall: Imperial Attitudes in Lady Audley's Secret Michelle Lin: "To Go Boldly Where No Woman Has Gone Before": Alicia Audley and the New Woman Grace Wetzel: Homelessness in the Home: Invention, Instability and Insanity in the Domestic Spaces of M.E. Braddon and L.M. Alcott Beyond Lady Audley's Secret Andrew Mangham: "Drink It Up Dear
- It Will Do You Good": Crime, Toxicology, and The Trail of the Serpent Anne-Marie Beller : Sensational Bildung? Infantilization and Female Maturation in Braddon's 1860s Novels Juliette Atkinson: To "Serve God and Mammon": Braddon and Literary Transgression Joanne Knowles: The French Connection: Gender, Morals and National Culture in Braddon's Novels Tamara S. Wagner: Re-Plotting Inheritance: The Triangulation of Legacies and Affinities in The Fatal Three Laurence Talairach-Vielmas: "If I Read Her Right": Textual Secrets in Thou Art the Man (1894) Kate Mattacks: Sensationalism on Trial: Courtroom Drama and the Image of Respectability in His Darling Sin Carla E. Coleman: "The Stage! Oh, Flora, the Very Idea Frightens Me!": Representations of Professional Theatre in Rupert Godwin and A Lost Eden Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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