Lady Audley biblio. (1)

Some Suggested Sources for Lady Audley's Secret

Badowski, Eva. “On the Track of Things: Sensation and Modernity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret,” Victorian Literature and Culture37.1 (March 2009): 157-175.

Blodgett, Harriet. “The Greying of Lady Audley’s Secret.” Papers on Language and Literature 37.2 (2001): 132-46.

Boyle, Thomas. Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.

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 and Culture 19 (1991): 189-211

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 Mary Elizabeth Braddon.” The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family. Princeton UP, 2000. 201-13.

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.

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 Fall): 218-33

----. 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): 22-26.

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.

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

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.

Litvak, Joseph. Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1992. (cf. 141-45)

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

Pykett, Lyn. “Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Secret Histories of Women.” The ‘Improper Feminine’: The Women’s Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing. London and NY: Routledge, 1992. 83-113.

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. London: St. Martin's, 1978.

Stern, Rebecca. “’Personification’ and ‘Good Marketing Ink’: Sanity, Performativity, and Biology in Victorian Sensation Fiction.” Nineteenth-Century Studies 14 (2000): 35-62.

Tilley, Elizabeth. "Gender and Role-Playing in Lady Audley's Secret." In Tinkler, Villani Valeria, et al. ed. Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 197-204.

Trodd, Anthea. Domestic Crime in the Victorian Novel. London: Macmillan, 1989.

Vicinus, Martha. “’Helpless and Unfriended’: Nineteenth-Century Domestic Melodrama.” New Literary History 13 (1981): 127-43.

Voskuil, Lynn M. “Acts of Madness: ‘Lady Audley’ and the Meanings of Victorian Femininity.” Feminist Studies 27 (2001): 611-41.

Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian: The Life and fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. New York: Garland Pub., 1979.