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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Braddon"”.
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Rival sensations: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, her adapters, and the contest for cultural representation
… with several theatrical rivals. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, the best-selling author of Lady Audley's Secret and co-creator of the ""sensation"" novel, was a favorite with dramatists. By reading twelve of her novels in conjunction with the twenty-seven plays based upon them, this study shows how the …
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Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist
… Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, I closely examine the ways in which these female redactors invoke and challenge male-authored texts within an established patriarchal literary tradition in order to create for themselves a distinctly female literary identity. Chapter One …
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… the work of Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, my project traces what I suggest is a particularly Victorian desire to empirically account for the material facts of the world and a simultaneous reluctance to abandon a sense of moral certainty that can be …
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Privately deviant, publicly disciplined: the violent seizure of female narratives in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Woman in White, and Lady Audley’s Secret
… What Anne Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon emphasize and “sensationalize” is the subjugated marriage relationship, violently portraying men forcing their wives into submission. Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Collin’s The Woman in White, and Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret provide …
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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device
… <em>Lady Audley’s Secret</em> by Mary Elizabeth Braddon explores the boundaries of both crime and insanity. As the main character, Robert Audley, investigates the mysterious disappearance of his close friend, he begins to suspect that his uncle’s new wife, Lucy Audley, may be guilty of murder. As …
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
… be on the female protagonist in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, Wilkie Collins Armadale, Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Behind a Mask,’ and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne.1 The effects of the moral and social climate of the nineteenth century and the influence the historical governess had on these …
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Antipodal England: Emigration, gender, and portable domesticity in Victorian literature and culture
… Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Catherine Helen Spence, and in cultural artifacts such as emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, and a narrative painting. My first chapter considers the centrality of domestic practices aboard emigrant ships, where family life is modeled …
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Analysis of factors that affect parvovirus expression
The positions of sequences necessary for transcription from the promoter located at map unit 4 of the bovine parvovirus (BPV) genome were determined. The autonomous parvoviruses, of which BPV is a member, contain two transcriptional units with promoters active in temporal order during infection. …
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Women writing men : female Victorian authors and their representations of masculinity
… Victorian authors (Elizabeth Gaskell, M.E. Braddon, Dinah Craik, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Edith Nesbit) and the representations of masculinity in their novels. By taking a masculinity studies approach, this dissertation finds that these novels, in an attempt to gain authority and legitimacy in …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… texts by many authors, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, Dinah Mulock Craik, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and Mrs. Henry Wood.
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The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930
… Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry James, and Arnold Bennett--each expressed an active interest in the technical elements of fiction, and each addressed the assumption that writers who were truly talented didn't need technique. In viewing these writers' respective …
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
… Then I trace the effects of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's incompletely accomplished erasure of the asexual possibility in Lady Audley's Secret. I both extend and depart from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's arguments in Epistemology of the Closet as I show how asexuality's defiance of the depth-based …
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The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
… Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, and George Eliot, it follows that, at the very least, we should entertain the possibility that the serial form was indeed one and the same as that of the Victorian novel itself. Each …
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
Contemporary critics condemned sensation novels on the grounds of excessive immorality. However, three of the most popular sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. …