Some Suggested Sources for Lady Audley's Secret
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Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret,” Victorian Literature and Culture
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Blodgett, Harriet. “The Greying of Lady Audley’s Secret.” Papers on Language and
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Boyle, Thomas. Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead. New York: Viking
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Brantlinger. Patrick. "What's 'Sensational' about the Sensation Novel?"
Nineteenth-Century Fiction 37.1 (June 1982): 1-28.
Briganti, Chiara. "Gothic Maidens and Sensation Women: Lady Audley's
Journey from the Ruined Mansion to the Madhouse." Victorian Literature
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Boyle, Thomas. Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of
Victorian Sensationalism. New York: Viking, 1989. 145-58.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life
and Work. Hastings, England: The Sensations Press, 2000
Chase, Karen and Michael Levenson. “Bigamy and Modernity: The Case of
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Cornes, Judy. “The Secret Life of Lady Audley.” Madness and the Loss of Identity
in Nineteenth Century Fiction. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Cvetkovich, Ann. Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian
Sensationalism. Rutgers UP, 1992
Donnelly, Brian. “Sensational Bodies: Lady Audley and the Pre-Raphaelite
Portrait.” Victorian Newsletter 112 (2007 Fall): 69-90.
Felber, Lynette. “The Literary Portrait as Centerfold: Fetishism in Mary
Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.” Victorian Literature and Culture
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Fisk, Nicole P. “Lady Audley as Sacrifice: Curing Female Disadvantage in Lady
Audley’s Secret.” The Victorian Newsletter (Spring 2004): 24-27.
Gilbert, Pamela K. "Madness and Civilization: Generic Opposition in Mary
Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret. Essays in Literature 23.2 (1996
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----. Aeron Haynie, and Marlene Tromp, ed. Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth
Braddon in Context. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Hall, R. Mark. “A Victorian Sensation Novel in the ‘Contact Zone’: Reading Lady
Audley’s Secret through Imperial Eyes.” Victorian Newsletter (Fall 2000): 2226.
Hart, Lynda. "The Victorian Villainess and the Patriarchal Unconscious."
Literature and Psychology 40:3 (1994): 1-25
Haynie, Aeron. “An idle handle that was never turned, and a lazy rope so rotten:
The Decay of the Country Estate in Lady Audley’s Secret.” In Beyond Sensation:
Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, eds. Marlene Tromp, Pamela K. Gilbert, and
Aeron Haynie. New York: State University Press, 2000. 63-74.
Heinrichs, Rachel. “Critical Masculinities in Lady Audley’s Secret.” Victorian
Review 33.1 (2007): 103-120.
Houston, Gail Turley. "Braddon's Commentaries on the Trials and Legal Secrets
of Audley Court." In Gilbert et al. Beyond Sensation. 17-30
Hughes, Winifred. The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980
Klein, Herbert G. “Strong Women and Feeble Men: Upsetting Gender
Stereotypes in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret.” Atenea
28.1 (2008): 161-174.
Kushnier, Jennifer S. “Educating Boys to Be Queer: Braddon’s Lady Audley’s
Secret.” Victorian Literature and Culture 30.1 (2002): 61-75.
Langland, Elizabeth. Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology
in Victorian Culture. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1995. (cf. 233-240)
----. "Enclosure Acts: Framing Women's Bodies in Braddon's Lady Audley's
Secret." In In Gilbert et al. Beyond Sensation.
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Litvak, Joseph. Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English
Novel. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1992. (cf. 14145)
Martin, Daniel. “Railway Fatigue and the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Lady
Audley’s Secret.” Victorian Review 34.1 (2008): 131-153.
Matus, Jill L. "Disclosure as 'Cover Up:' The Discourse of Madness in Lady
Audley's Secret." In University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the
Humanities 62:3 (1993 Spring): 334-55.
Michie, Helena. Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture.
Oxford UP, '92.
Miller, D. A. “Cage aux folles: Sensation and Gender in Wilkie Collins’s Woman in
White.” Representations 14 (Spring 1986): 107-136. [cf. section on Lady
Audley in particular]
Montwieler, Katherine. “Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley’s Secret and
Consumer Culture.” In Gilbert et al. Beyond Sensation. 43-61.
Morris, Virginia B. Double Jeopardy: Women Who Kill in Victorian Fiction.
Lexington, Kentucky: UP of Kentucky, 1990.
Nayder, Lillian. “Rebellious Sepoys and Bigamous Wives: The Indian Mutiny and
Marriage Law Reform in Lady Audley’s Secret.” In Gilbert et al. Beyond
Sensation. 31-42.
Nemesvari, Richard. “Robert Audley’s Secret: Male Homosocial Desire in Lady
Audley’s Secret.” Studies in the Novel 27.4 (Winter, 1995): 515-528.
Pallo, Vicki A. “From Do-Nothing to Detective: The Transformation of Robert
Audley in Lady Audley's Secret.” Journal of Popular Culture (JPC) 39.3 (2006
June): 466-78.
Petch, Simon. “Robert Audley’s Profession.” Studies in the Novel 32.1 )2000): 113.
Pykett, Lyn. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Secret Histories of Women.” The
‘Improper Feminine’: The Women’s Sensation Novel and the New Woman
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Rance, Nicholas. Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists. Rutherford:
Fairleigh Dickenson UP, 1991.
Reynolds, Kimberly, and Nicola Humble. Victorian Heroines: Representations of
Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art (New York: NYU Press,
1993). See especially the chapter, "Strange Sensations."
Rosenmann, Ellen Bayuk. “’Mimic Sorrows’: Masochism and the Gendering of Pain
in Victorian Melodrama.” Studies in the Novel 35.1 (Spring 2003): 22-44.
Schroeder, Natalie. “Feminine Sensationalism, Eroticism, and Self-Assertion:
M.E. Braddon and Ouida.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 7.1 (Spring
1988): 87-103.
Showalter, Elaine. “Desperate Remedies: Sensation Novels of the 1860’s.”
Victorian Newsletter 49 (1976): 1-5.
----. "Family Secrets and Domestic Subversion: Rebellion in the Novels of the
1860s," in The Victorian Family: Structure and Stresses, ed. Anthony S. Wohl.
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Shuttleworth, Sally. “Preaching to the Nerves: Psychological Disorder in
Sensation Fiction." In Marina Benjamin, ed. A Question of Identity: Women,
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Steere, Elizabeth Lee. “’I Thought You Was an Evil Spirit’: The Hidden Villain of
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