Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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Pamela Gilbert argues that popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. She discusses work by three popular women novelists of the time: M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Ouida. Early and later novels of each writer are interpreted in the context of their reception, showing that attitudes toward fiction drew on Victorian beliefs about health, nationality, class and the body, beliefs that the fictions themselves both resisted and exploited.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052102207X
ISBN13:9780521022071
Release Date:August 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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