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- Title
Bearing Her Secret: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd.
- Authors
TATUM, KAREN E.
- Abstract
The article examines the novels "Aurora Floyd," and "Lady Audley's Secret," by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The author reflects that "Aurora Floyd" and "Lady Audley" represented two opposite masculine constructions of the female gender, with Aurora Floyd being the presumed femme fatale and Lady Audley, being the proper ideal. However, he finds that author Braddon's intention is to subvert their true identities, wherein Aurora is actually innocent while Lady Audley is actually dangerous. He opines that Braddon's conclusion supports the Symbolic order.
- Subjects
19TH century English literature; LADY Audley's Secret (Book); AURORA Floyd (Book); BRADDON, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915; FICTION; INTENTION; SYMBOLIC inversion; FEMININITY; FEMALES
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2007, Vol 40, Issue 3, p503
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00406.x