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Aurora Floyd
Contributor(s): Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (Author), Edwards, P. D. (Editor)
ISBN: 0199555168     ISBN-13: 9780199555161
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2009
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2009290699
Lexile Measure: 1250
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1.03" H x 5.78" W x 7.14" (0.75 lbs) 512 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
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.

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