Lady Audley's Secret (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

 
9781551113579: Lady Audley's Secret (Broadview Editions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1551113570 ISBN 13: 9781551113579
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Lady Audley's Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. The novel exemplifies "sensation fiction" in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. To its contemporary readers, it also offered the thrill of uncovering blackmail and criminal violence within the homes of the upper class. The novel makes trenchant critiques of Victorian gender roles and social stereotypes, and it creates significant sympathy for the heroine, despite her criminal acts, as she suffers from the injustices of the "marriage market" and rebels against them.

This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad selection of primary source material, including reproductions of the twenty-two woodcut illustrations from the London Journal serialization of the novel, extracts from two Victorian dramatizations of the work, satirical commentaries, and contemporary reviews.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Natalie M. Houston is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston.

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Lady Audley's Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. The novel exemplifies "sensation fiction" in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. To its contemporary readers, it also offered the thrill of uncovering blackmail and criminal violence within the homes of the upper class. The novel makes trenchant critiques of Victorian gender roles and social stereotypes, and it creates significant sympathy for the heroine, despite her criminal acts, as she suffers from the injustices of the "marriage market" and rebels against them.

This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad selection of primary source material, including reproductions of the twenty-two woodcut illustrations from the London Journal serialization of the novel, extracts from two Victorian dramatizations of the work, satirical commentaries, and contemporary reviews.

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Verlag
Broadview Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1551113570
ISBN 13 
9781551113579
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
510
Herausgeber
Houston Natalie M.
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