In her introduction to the Broadview Press edition of Lady Audley’s Secret, Natalie Houston analyzes the influence of the domestic novel and its tropes on the development and popularity of the subsequent sensation fiction genre. According to Houston, sensation novels “combined elements from the domestic novel, which focused on courtship and social success, with stories […]

My prior post considered the duality of the home and of women in Victorian sensation fiction, describing my search for occurrences of the words “house” and “woman” in Lady Audley’s Secret with the help of Voyant and AntConc, two digital concordance tools. Both of my searches emphasized the tensions occurring between societal expectations of the domestic […]

Are traditional and old forms of media “dead”? In our rapidly evolving digital world, how do the humanities and traditional literary analysis adapt? What is the intersection between the study of literature and the use of digital tools? How can new digital tools aid our practices of literary analysis? Though the rise of digital technology […]