Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels
| Author | : Pamela K. Gilbert |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2005-11-03 |
| ISBN-13 | : 052102207X |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780521022071 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Download or read book Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels written by Pamela K. Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
