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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Sensations Down Under : The Seismic Charge of Australia in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secret
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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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Alternative title: Sensations Down Under : Australia's Seismic Charge in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secret
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    y separately published work icon Australasian Victorian Studies Journal vol. 10 2004 Z1231886 2004 periodical issue 2004 pg. 1-9
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    y separately published work icon From Wollstonecraft to Stoker : Essays on Gothic and Victorian Sensation Fiction Marilyn Brock (editor), Jefferson : McFarland and Company , 2009 Z1674466 2009 anthology criticism ‘This collection of essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Brontë. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.’ (Provided by publisher) Jefferson : McFarland and Company , 2009 pg. 91-101
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1-9 Sensations Down Under : The Seismic Charge of Australia in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secretsmall AustLit logo Australasian Victorian Studies Journal
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    Australia,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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