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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index
Enclosure acts : framing women's bodies in Braddon's Lady Audley's secret / Elizabeth Langland -- Braddon's commentaries on the trials and legal secrets of Audley court / Gail Turley Houston -- Rebellious Sepoys and bigamous wives : the Indian mutiny and marriage law reform in Lady Audley's secret / Lillian Nayder -- Marketing sensation: Lady Audley's secret and consumer culture / Katherine Montwieler -- "An idle handle that was never turned, and a lazy rope so rotten" : the decay of the country estate in Lady Audley's secret / Aeron Haynie -- The espaliered girl : pruning the docile body in Aurora Floyd / Jeni Curtis -- The dangerous woman : M.E. Braddon's sensational (en)gendering of domestic law / Marlene Tromp -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Australia : queen of the colonies / Toni Johnson-Woods -- "Our author" : Braddon in the provincial weeklies / Jennifer Carnell and Graham Law -- Misalliance : M.E. Braddon's writing for the stage / Heidi J. Holder -- Braddon and victorian realism : Joshua Haggard's daughter / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Fiction becomes her : representations of female character in Mary Braddon's The Doctor's wife / Tabitha Sparks -- "Go and marry your doctor" : fetishism and "redundance" at the fin de sic̈le and the vampires of "Good Lady Ducayne" / Lauren M.E. Goodlad -- Spectral politics : M.E. Braddon and the spirits of social reform / Eve M. Lynch -- Electra-fying the female sleuth : detecting the father in Eleanor's victory and Thou art the man / Heidi H. Johnson -- Afterword / Lyn Pykett
"Mary Elizabeth Braddon, journal editor and bestselling author of more than eighty novels during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a key figure in the Victorian literary scene. This volume brings together new essays from a variety of perspectives that illuminate both the richness of Braddon's oeuvre and the variety of critical approaches of it." "Best known as the author of Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd, Braddon also wrote penny dreadfuls, realist novels, plays, short stories, reviews, and articles. The contributors move beyond her two most famous works and reflect a range of current issues and approaches, including gender, genre, imperialism, colonial reception, commodity culture, and publishing history."--Jacket
