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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Braddon, Mary Elizabeth"”.
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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. …
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
… of Sigmund Freud. 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 …