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Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Annette Federico
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Hardcover. This text seeks to return Marie Corelli, popular novelist of the turn of the 20th century, to conversations about the late-Victorian and Edwardian literary world. It reveals the profusion of the late-Victorian literary imagination and discusses how seriously we should take Corelli's aesthetic. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Marie Corelli was the most popular novelist of the turn of the 20th century, outselling Hall Caine, Mrs Humphrey Ward, H.G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle by the thousands. For 30 years she was ridiculed by reviewers and the literary elite, but these opinions had no impact on her mass appeal. In 1895, she broke all previous publishing records, and by 1906 a Corelli novel sold 100,000 copies a year. This text seeks to return Corelli to conversations about the late-Victorian and Edwardian literary world. As Annette R. Federico points out, Corelli's participation in the cultural life of her time ... Read more
Marie Corelli was the most popular novelist of the turn of the 20th century, outselling Hall Caine, Mrs Humphrey Ward, H.G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle by the thousands. For 30 years she was ridiculed by reviewers and the literary elite, but these opinions had no impact on her mass appeal. In 1895, she broke all previous publishing records, and by 1906 a Corelli novel sold 100,000 copies a year. This text seeks to return Corelli to conversations about the late-Victorian and Edwardian literary world. As Annette R. Federico points out, Corelli's participation in the cultural life of her time ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813919157
SKU
V9780813919157
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