In Lady Audley's Shadow : : Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres / / Saverio Tomaiuolo.
This book is devoted to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's complex relationship with the three main Victorian literary genres: the Gothic, the Detective and the Realist novel. Using Braddon's bestselling sensation fiction Lady Audley's Secret as a paradigmatic novel and as a 'haunting'...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the Lady Audley Paradigm
- Part I Gothic Mutations
- Chapter 1 Displacing the Gothic in Lady Audley’s Secret
- Chapter 2 John Marchmont’s Legacy and the Topologies of Dispossession
- Chapter 3 Reading between the (Blood)lines of Victorian Vampires: ‘Good Lady Ducayne’
- Part II Darwinian Detections
- Chapter 4 From Geology to Genealogy: Detectives and Counter-detectives in Lady Audley’s Secret and Henry Dunbar
- Chapter 5 Perception, Abduction, Disability: Eleanor’s Victory and The Trail of the Serpent
- Chapter 6 John Faunce’s Normalising Investigations in Rough Justice and His Darling Sin
- Part III Victorian Realisms
- Chapter 7 ‘So Like and Yet So Unlike’: Reality Effects, Sensational Letters and Pre- Raphaelite Portraits in Lady Audley’s Secret
- Chapter 8 Reading Sensation/Writing Realism: Photographic Strategies in The Doctor’s Wife
- Chapter 9 ‘All That is Solid Melts into Air’: Phantom Fortune and the Ghosts of Capitalism
- Bibliography
- Index