Sensation novel

The Style and Genre of Lady Audley’s Secret      Lady Audley’s Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, is a novel of many elements. It has been placed in many different style or genre categories since its publication. I feel that it best fits under the melodrama or sensational genre, and under the subgenre of mystery. It contains significant elements of both types of writing, so I feel it is best to recognize both, keeping in mind that melodrama is its main

In her A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing, Elaine Showalter states that Victorian sensation novels are a “genre in which everything that was not forbidden was compulsory” (Showalter 158). Therefore, many literature in the 1860s was comprised of murder, adultery, arson and other acts that would shock their readers. Another aspect of this shock factor was using sexual abnormalities as means to progress the plot. Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret introduces

Exploring Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s sensation novel Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) in light of Thomas Hardy’s cosmic tragedy Jude the Obscure (1895), which it must be said has not a great deal in common with Braddon’s novel. Indeed, the reason I have chosen to compare the two is because of the ways in which homosociality differs between class distinctions in their heavy masculine

social convention however, there were instances where women rebelled for the right to be free from its constraints. Among them was Lucy Graham Audley (also known as Helen Talboys), the antagonist of Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The novel itself is a demonstration of a woman 's rebellion against the confinement of stereotype and the separate sphere. In order to indoctrinate women to be modest and subservient, conduct books were published as a guide. In A Father 's Legacy to His Daughters

wealth in return. The novel uses a contrast among different types of women during this era. The Victorian era was notorious for change in women. It is through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s book, a historic shift from a man-run society to a more optimistic society for women, Lady Audley and the other female protagonists show that women are capable of being as intelligent as men and able

Explication Essay In the text “Lady Audley’s secret (1862)”, written by M. E. Braddon, there are many literary devices that came together to create a unique experience for the reader. The sentences in this text are purposely disconnected into eight lines. When reading a text that has sentences that are connected and flow fluently, it can be heard to determine key ideas. The text breaks up sentences so that key ideas are easily highlighted and specific words are emphasized. Within the eight lines

Mr. Linden’s Library Sarah was a curious girl. She had just turned 13 this summer. School had started and it was moving painstakingly slowly. Sarah often got bored in their little town of Ashton in northern Maine. It was one of those towns that you would never find on a map, or in real life. It was hidden behind a forest of green pine trees, and they hardly ever had new residents. The only people who lived there had had generations of family before them. Sarah was a part of one of those families

through the literary experience. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction to make the characters and stories in The Things They Carried realistically evocative of the Vietnam War.             Metafiction is found early in the novel, The Things They Carried. Tim O’Brien, the protagonist of the novel, has many similarities to the author of The Things They Carried. The author and the protagonist both share the same

Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre, is present in this short quote, which describes the mystery that is present within the novel. As well as its gothic sensation, romance is present as well, giving the novel its feminine characteristics. Foreshadowing is a main aspect which helps prolong the suspense in the novel. The element of foreshadowing helps the reader foresee the upcoming events in the novel. These gothic elements create a mysterious plot within the novel, which escalates during the climax. Novels in the

about love in her novel Like Water For Chocolate. Rather than bluntly giving her audience a direct assertion on the topic of romance, Esquivel spends a great deal of time using the strategy of symbolism. The reader can distinguish thematic developments and vital representations hidden in various images throughout the plot. Symbolism allows an audience to each have a distinctive experience reading a novel. Understanding this concept, Esquivel successfully uses thermal sensations and the color white