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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Lady Audley's Secret"”.
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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device
<p>As an archetypal sensation novel, <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 …
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Rival sensations: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, her adapters, and the contest for cultural representation
… 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 authors define bourgeois propriety …
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
… 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 logic of closetedness and secrecy complicates Oscar Wilde's attempted …
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"Vulgarized" : victorian women's fiction in minor theatres
… Gaskell’s Mary Barton, and M.E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret for what the adaptation can reveal about how these playwrights conceptualized class relations.<p> These adaptations exist within a series of relations--to the original novel, to the history of the theatre, to the audience, and …
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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. …