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Author Martin, Susan K., 1961-

Title Sensational Melbourne : reading, sensation fiction and Lady Audley's secret in the Victorian metropolis / Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi
Published North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly, 2011

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 MELB  827.31 S4783/S  DUE 03-04-24
Description x, 172 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction -- Sensation in the Victorian news -- Reading Lady Audley in Melbourne -- Seeing Lady Audley in Melbourne -- Watching Lady Audley -- Moral panic -- Melbourne's newest woman -- Conclusion
Summary Sue Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi take us through the libraries, the shops, the tramways, the theatres, the back lanes and the drawing rooms of Marvellous Melbourne, and show how the city was built on words as much as gold
Analysis Literature (Australia)
Notes "Colonial Meburnians were mad about sensation fiction - full of thrills and scandal; divorce, bigamy, mistaken identity and murder. Sensational Melbourne takes us through the libraries, the shops, the tramways, the theatres, the back lanes and the drawing rooms of marvellous Melbourne, and shows how the city was built on words as much as gold. It traces the passage of the most popular novel of the nineteenth century, Lady Audley's secret, from England to Melbourne's port and through the central byways of Melbourne out through the suburbs, and into Australian literature."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-170) and index
Subject Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915 -- Appreciation -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915. Lady Audley's secret.
Books and reading -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 19th century.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Sensationalism in literature -- History -- 19th century.
Suspense fiction, Australian -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 19th century.
Sensationalism in literature.
Suspense fiction, English -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 19th century.
SUBJECT Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 -- 1834-1900
Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008859
Author Mirmohamadi, Kylie.
ISBN 9781921875236