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

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 paradigmatic novel and as a 'haunting'...

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Author / Creator: Tomaiuolo, Saverio.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of 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.