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

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 e...

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Superior document:DQR studies in literature ; 50
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:DQR Studies in Literature 50.
Physical Description:1 online resource (279 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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.