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Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels

Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels

Gilbert, Pamela K.
Beer, Gillian

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 11

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 052102207X
ISBN13: 9780521022071
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 3 2005
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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