Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521022071)

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.

Author: Pamela K. Gilbert
ISBN-10: 052102207X
ISBN-13: 9780521022071
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2005
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d