Isabel Seidel, A. Moulds, Beth Gaskell, Porscha Fermanis, Priti Joshi, Jonathan Farina, K. Malone, Fionnuala Dillane, J. Codell, E. Liggins, Douglas A. Guerra, Kristin E. Kondrlik, Luke Seaber, Laurel Brake, Mark W. Turner, Nora Ramtke
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Abstract:After Margaret Oliphant referred to Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leader of the bigamy school of fiction in an 1867 Blackwood’s review, Braddon commissioned George Augustus Sala to write a riposte for her magazine, Belgravia. Scholars have explored the effect of Oliphant’s criticism on Braddon and Belgravia, but little attention has been paid to the fact that Oliphant responded directly to Sala’s accusations in her subsequent review articles in Blackwood’s. Taking the Braddon-Sala affair as a turning point in Oliphant’s literary criticism, this essay examines Oliphant’s review articles of the 1870s to demonstrate how the debate over sensation influenced her critical ethics.