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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 From Wollstonecraft to Stoker : Essays on Gothic and Victorian Sensation Fiction
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Sensations Down Under : Australia's Seismic Charge in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secret Sensations Down Under : The Seismic Charge of Australia in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secret, Julie M. Barst , single work criticism
Analyses the representation of Australia and the contradictory images of the colonies in two British novels. - Charles Dicken's Great Expectations and Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret. Argues that 'the mystery and danger of the colony were advanced to fulfill the expectations of the sensation market, while the opportunistic image of Australia was advanced to justify and promote Great Britains's imperialism to its citizens' (1).
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