In Lady Audley's Shadow : Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres.
Title:
In Lady Audley's Shadow : Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres.
Author:
Tomaiuolo, Saverio.
ISBN:
9780748643677
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Series:
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the Lady Audley Paradigm -- Part I Gothic Mutations -- Chapter 1 Displacing the Gothic in Lady Audley's Secret -- Chapter 2 John Marchmont's Legacy and the Topologies of Dispossession -- Chapter 3 Reading between the (Blood) linesof Victorian Vampires: 'Good Lady Ducayne' -- Part II Darwinian Detections -- Chapter 4 From Geology to Genealogy:Detectives and Counter-detectives in Lady Audley's Secret and Henry Dunbar -- Chapter 5 Perception, Abduction, Disability: Eleanor's Victory and The Trail of the Serpent -- Chapter 6 John Faunce's Normalising Investigations in Rough Justice and His Darling Sin -- Part III Victorian Realisms -- Chapter 7 'So Like and Yet So Unlike': Reality Effects, Sensational Letters and Pre-Raphaelite Portraits in Lady Audley's Secret -- Chapter 8 Reading Sensation/Writing Realism: Photographic Strategies in The Doctor's Wife -- Chapter 9'All That is Solid Melts into Air': Phantom Fortune and the Ghosts of Capitalism -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book is devoted to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's complex relationship with the three main Victorian literary genres (the Gothic, the Detective and the Realist novel) using Braddon's bestselling sensation fiction, Lady Audley's Secret, as a starting point from which to assess her work.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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