Architectural Femininity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret
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The essay points out that whereas the sensation novel’s preoccupation with the Victorian middle-class home as the venue of the event is recognized as the genre’s distinctive element and also results in widespread popularity, the novel’s representation of the home does not receive adequate attention. In examining one of the most popular sensation fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, this essay deals with Braddon’s construction of Victorian femininity embodying of architectural codes of the Victorian home as Lady Audley’s transgressive feminine desire is in conflicts with Robert Audley’s masculine epistemological desire. It is generally assumed that the spatial divide between the public sphere and the private sphere is gendered to a certain extent that the Victorian home is the private sphere and it is also infatuated with feminine virtues and womanly comfort. But for Victorian women, as I would argue, the Victorian home and the space of the private space do not grant privacy and homely comfort. Within the space of the Victorian home, Audley Court, a female inhabitant Lady Audley is architecturally contained and is denied to have a private space of her own that can encourage her to build the female self. Lady Audley’s inaccessibility to the space of her privacy and her status of houselessness are the cause and effect of her homelessness, which is the key to her insanity.
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The essay points out that whereas the sensation novel’s preoccupation with the Victorian middle-class home as the venue of the event is recognized as the genre’s distinctive element and also results in widespread popularity, the novel’s representation of the home does not receive adequate attention. In examining one of the most popular sensation fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, this essay deals with Braddon’s construction of Victorian femininity embodying of architectural codes of the Victorian home as Lady Audley’s transgressive feminine desire is in conflicts with Robert Audley’s masculine epistemological desire. It is generally assumed that the spatial divide between the public sphere and the private sphere is gendered to a certain extent that the Victorian home is the private sphere and it is also infatuated with feminine virtues and womanly comfort. But for Victorian women, as I would argue, the Victorian home and the space of the private space do not grant privacy and homely comfort. Within the space of the Victorian home, Audley Court, a female inhabitant Lady Audley is architecturally contained and is denied to have a private space of her own that can encourage her to build the female self. Lady Audley’s inaccessibility to the space of her privacy and her status of houselessness are the cause and effect of her homelessness, which is the key to her insanity.
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