Aurora Floyd

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Overview

Aurora Floyd is the daughter of a marriage between a nobleman and an actress. As she grows into maturity, this head-strong, dangerous and seductive vixen becomes embroiled in mystery and scandal. The story includes such controversial events as bigamy, murder and elopement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788027343041
Publisher:	E-Artnow
Publication date:	07/03/2022
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Richard Nemesvari, of the Department of English at St. Francis Xavier University, and Lisa Surridge of the Department of English at University of Victoria, have both written widely on 19th-century British fiction. Professor Nemesvari has also edited Jane Eyre for the Broadview Literary Text Series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief Chronology

Aurora Floyd

Appendix A: Victorian Femininity: The Stable, the Home, and the Fast Young Lady

1. “Fast Young Ladies” (Punch)
2. “Six Reasons Why Ladies Should Not Hunt” (The Field)
3. “Muscular Education” (Temple Bar)
4. John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (Sesame and Lilies) (1865)

Appendix B: Reviews and Responses

1. H.L. Mansel, “Sensation Novels” (Quarterly Review)
2. “The Archbishop of York on Works of Fiction” (The Times)
3. W. Fraser Rae, “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon” (North British Review)
4. Henry James, “Miss Braddon” (The Nation)
5. Margaret Oliphant, “Novels” (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine)
6. George Augustus Sala, “The Cant of Modern Criticism” (Belgravia)
7. George Augustus Sala, “On the ‘Sensational’ in Literature and Art” (Belgravia)
8. “Sensation Novels” (Punch)

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Editorial Reviews

This is the only modern edition to be based on the first three-volume version of Braddon’s much revised novel, and the editors make an excellent case for their choice. A substantial and lucidly written critical introduction situates the novel in its contemporary cultural contexts; in debates about realism and sensationalism, and anxieties about class, femininity, domesticity and marriage. The appendices, containing a selection of contemporary views of femininity and domesticity, and responses to Braddon and her novel, are an added bonus to this excellent volume.” — Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth

“Invaluable … provides copious explanatory notes, appendices containing contemporary reviews and writings on femininity, and a thorough, well-organized introduction.” — Times Literary Supplement

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