In Lady Audley's Shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres

Saverio Tomaiuolo

In Lady Audley's Shadow

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres

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Saverio Tomaiuolo, Cassino University

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: September 2012
Print publication year:: 2010
Online ISBN:: 9780748643677

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts

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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.

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In Lady Audley's Shadow

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Series Editor's Preface
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction: the Lady Audley Paradigm
pp 1-20

Part I - Gothic Mutations
pp 21-22

1 - Displacing the Gothic in Lady Audley's Secret
pp 23-40

2 - John Marchmont's Legacy and the Topologies of Dispossession
pp 41-59

3 - Reading between the (Blood)lines of Victorian Vampires: ‘Good Lady Ducayne’
pp 60-76

Part II - Darwinian Detections
pp 77-78

4 - From Geology to Genealogy: Detectives and Counterdetectives in Lady Audley's Secret and Henry Dunbar
pp 79-96

5 - Perception, Abduction, Disability: Eleanor's Victory and The Trail of the Serpent
pp 97-118

6 - John Faunce's Normalising Investigations in Rough Justice and His Darling Sin
pp 119-134

Part III - Victorian Realisms
pp 135-136

7 - ‘So Like and Yet So Unlike’: Reality Effects, Sensational Letters and Pre-Raphaelite Portraits in Lady Audley's Secret
pp 137-155

8 - Reading Sensation/Writing Realism: Photographic Strategies in The Doctor's Wife
pp 156-174

9 - ‘All That is Solid Melts into Air’: Phantom Fortune and the Ghosts of Capitalism
pp 175-193

Bibliography
pp 194-213

Index
pp 214-222

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