Sensational Victorian: the life and fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Titel: Sensational Victorian
Autor: Wolff, Robert Lee
Jahr: 1979
CONTENTS
List, of Illustrations (following pages 242 and 402)
Prologue: "A Magnificent Benefactress to the Literary Estate":
the Mystery of a Reputation 1
PART I: THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE, 1835-1875
Chapter I: "Before the Knowledge of Evil": an Early Victorian
Girlhood (1835-1847)
1. The Braddons 19
2. Girlhood with Mamma 29
Chapter II: "Do You Think the British Public Would Pay
to See You Act?" (1847-1860)
1.
Overture in Camberwell
40
2.
Mrs. Hector Sternhold and Others: the Evidence
of the Documents
45
3.
The Stage Remembered: the Evidence of the Fiction
54
4.
"Circumambulatory" and The Loves of Arcadia:
the Curtain Rings Down
74
Chapter III: The Secret of "The Author of Lady Audley's Secret"
(1860-1868)
1. What Charles Reade Really Said 79
2. The Beverley Maecenas 84
3. "A Big Burly Florid-faced Loud-spoken Irishman" 97
Chapter IV: "The Amount of Crime, Treachery, Murder,
Slow Poisoning, and General Infamy Is Something Terrible"
(1861-1868)
109
1. The 'Prentice Hand
110
2. Sows' Ears and Silk Purses: Halfpenny Fiction,
1861-1868
118
3. The Voice of Sigismund Smith
126
4. "The Highest Rate to Be Screwed Out of a Publisher"
134
CONTENTS * Vili
Chapter V: "Can the Sensational Be Elevated by Art, and
Redeemed from All Its Coarseness?" (1863-1868) 148
1. Aurora Floyd, Henry James, and Bulwer: Art and
the Passions 149
2. "That Archetype Is a Perfect Eel": the Struggle for
Excellence in Three Pairs of Novels 158
3. "Your Ideal Artist Is Above Envy and Above
Despair": The Lady's Mile (1866) 169
4. "This Fellow Balzac Knows Better": Belgravia and
the Return to Sensation (1867-1868) 178
Chapter VI: "The Right to Choose My Subjects from
the Tragic, Criminal, and Exceptional Situations of Life":
MEB and Her Hostile Critics (1863-1868) 188
1. Preliminary Skirmishing, 1863-1864 189
2. The Barrage Opens, 1865 194
3. The Height of the Bombardment, 1867 200
4. An Old Enemy Enters the Battle, 1867 207
5. Last Exchanges: the Smoke Clears (1868) 216
Chapter VII: "Over All There Hung a Shadow and a Fear"
(1868-1875) 222
1. Family Tragedy and Nervous Collapse (1868-1869) 223
2. The Revival of Imagination and the Death of
the Master (1870-1873) 229
3. "The Nice Adjustment of Murder and Morality"
(1873-1874) 237
4. "On the Highway of Life, the Boundary-line Is Not
So Clearly Defined" ( 1874-1875) 248
PART II: THE YEARS OF FULFILLMENT, 1875-1915
Chapter VIII: "There Is Exuberant Life, not a Trace of
Fatigue or Distaste, or Decline of Fancy" (1875-1885) 257
1. "A Solid Unchanging Environment" 258
2. MEB as a Classical Tragedian: Joshua Haggard's
Daughter (1876) ' ' 270
3. MEB as a Crypto-Radical (1877-1882) 277
4. MEB as a Student of Zola (1879-1883) 289
IX • CONTENTS
5. MEB as Zola (1883-1885) 299
6. Epilogue: MEB op Zola, 1885 317
Chapter IX: "It Is As Natural for Her to Write As It Is for a
Mountain Torrent to Flow" (1885-1895) 321
1. "The Feast Is the Feast of Our Grandfathers" 322
2. Themes and Variations (1886-1892) 338
3. The End of an Era (1892-1895) 353
Chapter X: From Victorian to Georgian: the Final Decades
(1895-1915)
1. The Doyenne of English Novelists at Home 361
2. "The Novelist's Scope Has Widened Greatly":
MEB's Last Novels and the Problems of the Plutocracy 381
3. "A Little Tired After Exciting Days" 401
Note on Sources, and Acknowledgments 409
Chronological Checklist of MEB's Important Writing 413
Abbreviations 416
Notes 417
Appendix 482
Index
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