Discussing the presentation of madness in The Woman in White, Lady Audley's Secret and this novel, Rebecca Stern
suggests that St. Martin's Eve, unlike the earlier works, leaves no space for a subversive...
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Ellen Wood
This novel develops a number of intermingling plots, bound together by what critic Rebecca Stern
calls one constant theme: degeneration.
Stern, Rebecca. “’Personation’ and ’Good Marking-Ink’: Sanity, Performativity, and Biology in Victorian Sensation Fiction”. Nineteenth Century Studies, Vol.
14
, 2000, pp. 35-62.
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Charlotte Norris, daughter of a man who died insane, marries George Carlton St John...
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Stern, Rebecca. “’Personation’ and ’Good Marking-Ink’: Sanity, Performativity, and Biology in Victorian Sensation Fiction”. Nineteenth Century Studies, Vol.