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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Jessica.

Series:

DQR studies in literature.

DQR studies in literature ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century.

English literature.

Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915--Criticism and interpretation.

Braddon, M. E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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’.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-65688-4

94-012-0854-9

OCLC:

818317943

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401208543 DOI