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Beyond sensation : Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context
- Title
- Beyond sensation : Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context / edited by Marlene Tromp, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
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- Description
- xxviii, 302 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Women and literature > England > History > 19th century
- Braddon, M. E (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915 > Lady Audley's secret
- Sensationalism in literature
- Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism
- Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism
- Braddon, M. E (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915 > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-285) and index.
- Contents
- Enclosure acts: framing women's bodies in Braddon's Lady Audley's secret / Elizabeth Langland -- Braddon's commentaries on the trials and legal secrets of Audley court / Gail Turley Houston -- Rebellious Sepoys and bigamous wives: the Indian mutiny and marriage law reform in Lady Audley's secret / Lillian Nayder -- Marketing sensation: Lady Audley's secret and consumer culture / Katherine Montwieler -- "An idle handle that was never turned, and a lazy rope so rotten": the decay of the country estate in Lady Audley's secret / Aeron Haynie -- The espaliered girl: pruning the docile body in Aurora Floyd / Jeni Curtis -- The dangerous woman: M.E. Braddon's sensational (en)gendering of domestic law / Marlene Tromp -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Australia: queen of the colonies / Toni Johnson-Woods -- "Our author": Braddon in the provincial weeklies / Jennifer Carnell and Graham Law -- Misalliance: M.E. Braddon's writing for the stage / Heidi J. Holder -- Braddon and victorian realism: Joshua Haggard's daughter / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Fiction becomes her: representations of female character in Mary Braddon's The Doctor's wife / Tabitha Sparks -- "Go and marry your doctor": fetishism and "redundance" at the fin de sïcle and the vampires of "Good Lady Ducayne" / Lauren M.E. Goodlad -- Spectral politics: M.E. Braddon and the spirits of social reform / Eve M. Lynch -- Electra-fying the female sleuth: detecting the father in Eleanor's victory and Thou art the man / Heidi H. Johnson -- Afterword / Lyn Pykett.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-7093
- ISBN
- 0791444198 (alk. paper)
- 0791444201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99037009
- OCLC
- 41641382
- Title
- Beyond sensation : Mary Elizabeth Braddon in context / edited by Marlene Tromp, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-285) and index.
- Added Author
- Tromp, Marlene, 1966-Gilbert, Pamela K.Haynie, Aeron, 1964-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-7093