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"Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was the most popular novelist of the turn of the century, outselling Hall Caine, Mrs. Humphry Ward, H. G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle by the thousands. For thirty years she was ridiculed by reviewers and the literary elite - Edmund Gosse dismissed her as "that little milliner" - but these opinions had no impact on her mass appeal.".
"In examining Corelli's celebrity and her protean literary talents in the context of a changing book market, Federico reveals the profusion of the late-Victorian literary imagination. She analyzes Corelli's participation in literary decadence, feminism, and New Woman fiction, and she discusses how seriously we should take her aesthetic and its literary influence.
Federico asks why heterosexual love seems pathological in so many of Corelli's novels and assesses the validity of biographical and psychoanalytic explanations of her celibacy and her lifelong companionship with another woman." "Idol of Suburbia is the first full-length study to address these questions and to set Corelli within the framework of literary history and contemporary critical theory."--BOOK JACKET.
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Authors and readers, Books and reading, Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature, History, Popular culture, Suburban life, Women, Women and literature, Books and reading, history, Popular culture, great britain, English literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryPeople
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Idol of suburbia: Marie Corelli and late-Victorian literary culture
2000, University Press of Virginia
in English
0813919150 9780813919157
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index.
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