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- Title
Generic Gothic and Unsettling Genre Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Penny Blood.
- Authors
Bennett, Mark
- Abstract
This article considers the exploration of Gothic genericity within two of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's neglected penny blood fictions. It observes the way in which genericity comes to be associated with the Gothic as the supposedly disruptive influence of popular literatures is countered by Victorian reviewers. These emphasise such texts' genericity in order to contain their influence and separate them from superior readerships and literature which is held to transcend generic limitations. Braddon's bloods explore this implicit association between the Gothic and genericity and suggest that the latter - identified in terms of the Gothic's status as an ephemeral commodity in the penny blood genre - actually enhances rather than limits, the Gothic's agency.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; BRADDON, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915; PENNY dreadfuls; ENGLISH gothic fiction (Literary genre); BRITISH literature; FICTION genres; POPULAR literature -- History &; criticism; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Gothic Studies, 2011, Vol 13, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
1362-7937
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7227/GS.13.1.4