New perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon / / edited by Jessica Cox.

• Superior document: DQR studies in literature ; 50
• TeilnehmendeR: Cox, Jessica.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: DQR studies in literature.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

Preliminary material / Editors New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- INTRODUCTION. BLURRING BOUNDARIES: THE FICTION OF M.E. BRADDON / JESSICA COX -- TO THE MAD-HOUSE BORN: THE ETHICS OF EXTERIORITY IN LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET / TABITHA SPARKS -- IMPERIAL ATTITUDES IN LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET / NANCY KNOWLES and KATHERINE HALL -- “TO GO BOLDLY WHERE NOWOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE”: ALICIA AUDLEY AND THE NEWWOMAN / MICHELLE LIN -- HOMELESS IN THE HOME: INVENTION, INSTABILITY, AND INSANITY IN THE DOMESTIC SPACES OF M.E. BRADDON AND L.M. ALCOTT / GRACE WETZEL -- “DRINK IT UP DEAR; ITWILL DO YOU GOOD”: CRIME, TOXICOLOGY, AND THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT / ANDREW MANGHAM -- SENSATIONAL BILDUNG? INFANTILIZATION AND FEMALE MATURATION IN BRADDON’S 1860S NOVELS / ANNE-MARIE BELLER -- TO “SERVE GOD AND MAMMON”: BRADDON AND LITERARY TRANSGRESSION / JULIETTE ATKINSON -- THE FRENCH CONNECTION: GENDER, MORALS AND NATIONAL CULTURE IN BRADDON’S NOVELS / JOANNE KNOWLES -- RE-PLOTTING INHERITANCE: THE TRIANGULATION OF LEGACIES AND AFFINITIES IN THE FATAL THREE / TAMARA S. WAGNER -- “IF I READ HER RIGHT”: TEXTUAL SECRETS IN THOU ART THE MAN (1894) / LAURENCE TALAIRACH-VIELMAS -- SENSATIONALISM ON TRIAL: COURTROOM DRAMA AND THE IMAGE OF RESPECTABILITY IN HIS DARLING SIN / KATE MATTACKS -- “THE STAGE! OH, FLORA, THE VERY IDEA FRIGHTENS ME!”: REPRESENTATIONS OF VICTORIAN PROFESSIONAL THEATRE IN RUPERT GODWIN AND A LOST EDEN / CARLA E. COLEMAN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY / Editors New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / Editors New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- INDEX / Editors New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon.