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Aurora Floyd de Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Aurora Floyd

Autor Mary Elizabeth Braddon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2024
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With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of `sensation novelists'. Aurora Floyd (1862-3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions. Passionate, sometimes violent, Aurora does succeed in enjoying them, her desires scarcely chastened by her disastrous first marriage. She represents a challenge to the mid-Victorian sexual code, and particularly to the feminine ideal of simpering, angelic young ladyhood. P. D. Edward's introduction evaluates the novel's leading place among `bigamy-novels' and Braddon's treatment of the power struggle between the sexes, as well as considering the similarities between the author and her heroine. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9788028375119
ISBN-10: 8028375111
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Sharp Ink

Notă biografică

P. D. Edwards is Darnell Professor of English at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also the editor of several Trollope titles in World's Classics.

Recenzii

Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’—a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Dickens’s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser’s magazine asserted that “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”
The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one’s family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora’s bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditious divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. “What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record,” wrote Margaret Oliphant.
Braddon’s text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.

“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

Cuprins

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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