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Reinventing Marie Corelli for the twenty-first century /

"Once upon a time, Marie Corelli was the most popular, and bestselling, writer in the world. In England she was just as well known as Charles Dickens, according to one of her biographers, George Bullock (117).1 Another biographer claimed that while Queen Victoria was alive, Corelli was the ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ayres, Brenda, 1953- (Editor ), Maier, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Stratford-upon-Avon's "great little lady" / Nick Leigh Birch
  • From "girl alone" to "genius" : Corelli's transforming epistolary rhetoric / Colleen Morrissey
  • Marie Corelli, the public sphere and public opinion / Julia Kuehn
  • "The muses are women; so are the fates" : Corelli's literary masquerade(s) / Sarah E. Maier
  • The devil & Miss Corelli : re-gendering the diabolical and the redemptive in the sorrows of Satan / Julianne Smith
  • Muscular Christianity unbound : masculinity in Ardath / Gareth Hadyk-DeLodder
  • Over her (un) dead body : gender politics, mediumship and feminist spiritual theology in the works of Marie Corelli / Carol Margaret Davison
  • "The story of a dead self" : the theosophical novels of Marie Corelli / Brenda Ayres
  • "Something vile in the composition" : Marie Corelli's Ziska, decadent portraiture and the new woman / Angie Blumberg.