Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels
Introduction: femininity through the looking-glass -- That that is, is: the bondage of stories in Jean Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy (1864) -- Macdonald's fallen angel in The light princess (1864) -- Drawing muchnesses in Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in wonderland (1865) -- Tam...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Aldershot u.a.
Ashgate
2007
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Women in literature
> English fiction
> History and criticism
> Fairy tales
> Fantasy fiction, English
> Children's stories, English
> Popular literature
> Femininity in literature
> Human body in literature
> 19th century
> Great Britain
> Body, Human, in literature
> Englisch
> Großbritannien
> Fantastische Literatur
> Sensationsroman
> Frau
> Körper
> Geschichte 1837-1901
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: femininity through the looking-glass -- That that is, is: the bondage of stories in Jean Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy (1864) -- Macdonald's fallen angel in The light princess (1864) -- Drawing muchnesses in Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in wonderland (1865) -- Taming the female body in Juliana Horatia Ewing's Amelia and the dwarfs (1870) and Christina Rossetti's Speaking likenesses (1874) -- A journey through the crystal palace: Rhoda Broughton's politics of plate-glass in Not wisely but too well (1867) -- Investigating books of beauties in Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) and M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's secret (1862) -- Shaping the female consumer in Wilkie Collins's No name (1862) -- Rachel Leverson and the London beauty salon: female aestheticism and criminality in Wilkie Collins's Armadale (1864) -- Wilkie Collins's modern Snow White: arsenic consumption and ghastly complexions in The law and the lady (1875) |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 188 S. Ill. 24cm |
| ISBN: | 9780754660347 978-0-7546-6034-7 0754660346 0-7546-6034-6 |