
Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon(Author)
Natalie M. Houston(Editor)
Broadview Press Ltd
Published on 19. August 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
510 pages
978-1-55111-357-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55111-357-9 (9781551113579)
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Persons
Natalie M. Houston is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston.