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Novelist Marie Corelli was extremely popular at the turn of the century, so much so that J. M. Stuart-Young complained about the 'Corelli Cult'. Corelli broke all sales records during the 30 years of her publishing. Her books have enjoyed a resurgence of interest over the past two decades for various reasons but ostensibly due to their challenge to gender constrictions. Corelli's perception of gender and her gender demeanor were complicated and mercurial. Speculation that she was transgendered, a deduction drawn from her writing and from her having lived in an intimate relationship with Bertha Vyver for 64 years, makes her a person of interest today. Additionally, her 30 novels, short stories and essays are all in print and they reflect a myriad of themes and experiences as relevant today, if not more so, than during the late Victorian period. So far, other than a special issue of 'Women's Writing' in 2006, no collection of essays on Corelli has been published. 'Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century' is the first to remedy that, prompted by her current popularity, a desire to introduce her to a new generation and to instigate critical inquiry that will offer an appreciation for her themes, style and historical place in the literary canon.
English fiction --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Corelli, Marie, --- Corelli, Maria, --- Karēlī, Mērī, --- Mackay, Mary, --- Mǣrī Khō̜renli, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British spy thriller, Japanese mysteries, the 'new weird', fantasy, girl hero action novels and Québecois science fiction. It also examines the production, reproduction and distribution of popular fiction as it carves out space for itself in transnational marketplaces and across different media entertainment systems; and it discusses the careers of popular authors and the various investments in popular fiction by readers and fans. This book will be indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in this prolific but highly distinctive literary field.
Fiction --- Literature --- History --- science fiction --- detectiveromans --- Gothic --- fantasy --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Corelli, Marie --- Mina, Denise --- Unno, Jūza --- Levin, Ira --- Haywood, Eliza --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099
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This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siècle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?
Degeneration in literature --- Normativity (Ethics) --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Stoker, Bram, --- Stevenson, Robert Louis, --- Wilde, Oscar, --- Machen, Arthur, --- Marsh, Richard, --- Corelli, Marie,
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This book builds on the large volume of existing literature that details the social, moral and economic context in which women of this era operated. It further complements the smaller body of existing writing that probes the interior lives of women. However, where as these latter works use personal documents, such as diaries and letters, to gain insight into the interior lives of mainly upper middle- and upper-class women, this study concentrates on women from the lower and middle levels of the middle classes and on those from the upper rungs of the lower classes.
Women and literature --- Middle class in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Middle classes in literature --- History --- Bennett, Arnold, --- Corelli, Marie, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Corelli, Maria, --- Karēlī, Mērī, --- Mackay, Mary, --- Mǣrī Khō̜renli, --- Bennett, Enoch Arnold, --- Bennett, E. A. --- Bennett, Arnold
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