Add to ORKGWhy do we read what we read? Janice Radway examines works that were not popular in an author\u27s time period, but now are affecting the construction of the canon. In her own words, Radway seeks to establish [popular literature] as something other than a watered-down version of a more authentic high culture [and] to present the middlebrow positively as a culture with its own particular substance and intellectual coherence (208). Mary Elizabeth Braddon\u27s novels were considered middlebrow and were very popular in Victorian England. Along with this facet, her heroines were considered controversial because they were not portrayed as what would be labeled a proper female in Victorian society. The popularity of her novels, her heroines...
This thesis explores Victorian sensation fiction and key authors who rely on essentialism, employing...
In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in critical attention on the life and oeuvre of Mary El...
The article analyses thematic and figurative connection between early Gothic novels by English write...
Drawing together Braddon’s writing and the rapidly evolving Victorian literary world, this thesis ex...
Despite the Victorian society’s dismissal of sensation novels as low-brow literature and scholars’ l...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's popular novels surged into the literary marketplace following her bestselle...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s long career coincided with a shift in writing practices, as the Victorian l...
Saverio Tomaiuolo’s In Lady Audley’s Shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres is...
When Victorian fiction entered academic study in the mid-twentieth century, the texts that were cons...
PhD ThesisThe thesis seeks to explore the appeal of M. E. Braddon's extremely popular early fiction...
The sensation genre in the 1860s stirred fierce discussions regarding scandalous, sensational and u...
This dissertation investigates the vital role of the private female reading experience in the creati...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a prolific English writer of popular fiction in the Victorian period. Her...
In the nineteenth century, British playwrights exploited a loophole in the copyright law to adapt po...
The simultaneous rise of Victorian women’s movement and the dominance of female authorship and reade...
This thesis explores Victorian sensation fiction and key authors who rely on essentialism, employing...
In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in critical attention on the life and oeuvre of Mary El...
The article analyses thematic and figurative connection between early Gothic novels by English write...
Drawing together Braddon’s writing and the rapidly evolving Victorian literary world, this thesis ex...
Despite the Victorian society’s dismissal of sensation novels as low-brow literature and scholars’ l...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's popular novels surged into the literary marketplace following her bestselle...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s long career coincided with a shift in writing practices, as the Victorian l...
Saverio Tomaiuolo’s In Lady Audley’s Shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres is...
When Victorian fiction entered academic study in the mid-twentieth century, the texts that were cons...
PhD ThesisThe thesis seeks to explore the appeal of M. E. Braddon's extremely popular early fiction...
The sensation genre in the 1860s stirred fierce discussions regarding scandalous, sensational and u...
This dissertation investigates the vital role of the private female reading experience in the creati...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a prolific English writer of popular fiction in the Victorian period. Her...
In the nineteenth century, British playwrights exploited a loophole in the copyright law to adapt po...
The simultaneous rise of Victorian women’s movement and the dominance of female authorship and reade...
This thesis explores Victorian sensation fiction and key authors who rely on essentialism, employing...
In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in critical attention on the life and oeuvre of Mary El...
The article analyses thematic and figurative connection between early Gothic novels by English write...