Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas.
Publication details: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Ashgate, c2007. Description: 188 p. : ill.; 24 cmISBN: 9780754660347; 0754660346 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Women in literature | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Fairy tales -- Great Britain -- History and criticism | Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism | Children's stories, English -- History and criticism | Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism | Femininity in literature | Human body in literatureDDC classification: 823/.8099287 LOC classification: PR878. | W6T36 2007Online resources: Table of contents only| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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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).