Reading Novel Experience, Sensational Fictions, and The Impressionable Reader in M. E. Braddon’s Joshua Haggard’s Daughter

IF 0.5 2区文学 0 LITERATURE

STUDIES IN THE NOVEL Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1353/sdn.2022.0028

Scott C. Thompson

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Abstract

Abstract:Mary Elizabeth Braddon was on the frontlines of defense against the critics of the sensation novel, a genre she defended as both influential author and editor. This article argues that Braddon’s Joshua Haggard’s Daughter (1876), her final novel to appear in Belgravia under her editorship, actively challenges the criticism of the sensation genre. Braddon incorporates new elements to her defense of sensation fiction by engaging in the same cultural discourse used by the genre’s critics, the discourse of physiological psychology, and dramatizing multi-faceted models of novel-reader relationships. Braddon subverts audience and literary expectations by drawing on contemporary theories of reading and psychology to suggest positive benefits could be gained through novel reading and reversing the gender of the supposed impressionable reader. Joshua Haggard’s Daughter reveals the prevailing criticism of the sensation genre to be gendered, reductive, and ultimately nothing more than a sensational fiction itself.

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布雷登《约书亚·哈格德的女儿》中的小说体验、煽情小说与易受影响的读者

摘要:玛丽·伊丽莎白·布莱登站在反对对轰动小说的批评的最前线，作为一种有影响力的作家和编辑，她为轰动小说辩护。本文认为，布雷登的《约书亚·哈格德的女儿》(1876)是她在贝尔格莱维亚出版的最后一部小说，它积极地挑战了对感觉小说类型的批评。Braddon将新的元素融入到她对感觉小说的辩护中，她采用了与该类型的评论家使用的相同的文化话语，生理心理学的话语，并戏剧化了小说与读者关系的多方面模式。Braddon颠覆了读者和文学的期望，他借鉴了当代的阅读和心理学理论，认为通过小说阅读可以获得积极的好处，并扭转了所谓易受影响的读者的性别。约书亚·哈格德的《女儿》揭示了对感性小说的普遍批评，即性别化、简化，最终只不过是一部感性小说本身。

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期刊介绍： From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.