List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
James R. Kincaid
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marlene Tromp, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie
I. Lady Audley's Secret
1. Enclosure Acts: Framing Women's Bodies in Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
Elizabeth Langland
2. Braddon's Commentaries on the Trials and Legal Secrets of Audley Court
Gail Turley Houston
3. Rebellious Sepoys and Bigamous Wives: The Indian Mutiny and Marriage Law Reform in Lady Audley's Secret
Lillian Nayder
4. Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley's Secret and Consumer Culture
Katherine Montwieler
5. "An Idle Handle That Was Never Turned, and a Lazy Rope So Rotten": The Decay of the Country Estate in Lady Audley's Secret
Aeron Haynie
II. Aurora Floyd
6. The Espaliered Girl: Pruning the Docile Body in Aurora Floyd
Jeni Curtis
7. The Dangerous Woman: M. E. Braddon's Sensational (En)gendering of Domestic Law
Marlene Tromp
III. Braddon in the Literary Marketplace
8. Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Australia: Queen of the Colonies
Toni Johnson-Woods
9. "Our Author": Braddon in the Provincial Weeklies
Jennifer Carnell and Graham Law
10. Misalliance: M. E. Braddon's Writing for the Stage
Heidi J. Holder
IV. Genre and Culture
11. Braddon and Victorian Realism: Joshua Haggard's Daughter
Pamela K. Gilbert
12. Fiction Becomes Her: Representations of Female Character in Mary Braddon's The Doctor's Wife
Tabitha Sparks
13. "Go and Marry Your Doctor" : Fetishism and "Redundance" at the Fin de Siècle and the Vampires of ''Good Lady Ducayne"
Lauren M. E. Goodlad
14. Spectral Politics: M. E. Braddon and the Spirits of Social Reform
Eve M. Lynch
15. Electra-fying the Female Sleuth: Detecting the Father in Eleanor's Victory and Thou Art the Man
Heidi H. Johnson
Afterword
Lyn Pykett
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index