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New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon /

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2012.
Colección:DQR studies in literature ; 50.
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Blurring Boundaries: The Fiction of M.E. Braddon; I: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET; To the Mad-House Born: The Ethics of Exteriority in Lady Audley's Secret; Imperial Attitudes in Lady Audley's Secret; "To Go Boldly Where No woman Has Gone Before": Alicia Audley and the New Woman ; Homelessness in the Home: Invention, Instability and Insanity in the Domestic Spaces of ME. Braddon and L.M Alcott; II: BEYOND LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET; ""Drink It Up Dear.
  • It Will Do You Good"": Crime, Toxicology, and The Trail of the SerpentSensational Bildung? Infantilization and Female Maturation in Braddon's 1860s Novels; To ""Serve God and Mammon"": Braddon and Literary Transgression; The French Connection: Gender, Morals and National Culture in Braddon's Novels; Re-Plotting Inheritance: The Triangulation of Legacies and Affinities in The Fatal Three; ""If I Read Her Right"": Textual Secrets in Thou Art the Man (1894); Sensationalism on Trial: Courtroom Drama and the Image of Respectability in His Darling Sin.
  • ""The Stage! Oh, Flora, the Very Idea Frightens Me!"": Representations of Professional Theatre in Rupert Godwin and A Lost EdenBibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.