Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels /
Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.
Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Ashgate, c2007. - 188 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.
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).
9780754660347 0754660346 (alk. paper)
2007010451
Women in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Fairy tales--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.
Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
Popular literature--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Femininity in literature.
Human body in literature.
PR878. / W6T36 2007
823/.8099287
Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Ashgate, c2007. - 188 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.
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).
9780754660347 0754660346 (alk. paper)
2007010451
Women in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Fairy tales--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.
Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
Popular literature--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Femininity in literature.
Human body in literature.
PR878. / W6T36 2007
823/.8099287