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- catalog abstract ""Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was the most popular novelist of the turn of the century, outselling Hall Caine, Mrs. Humphry Ward, H.G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle by the thousands. For thirty years she was ridiculed by reviewers and the literary elite - Edmund Gosse dismissed her as "that little milliner"--But these opinions had no impact on her mass appeal." "In examining Corelli's celebrity and her protean literary talents in the context of a changing book market, Federico reveals the profusion of the late-Victorian literary imagination. She analyzes Corelli's participation in literary decadence, feminism, and New Woman fiction, and she discusses how seriously we should take her aesthetic and its literary influence. Federico asks why heterosexual love seems pathological in so many of Corelli's novels and assesses the validity of biographical and psychoanalytic explanations of her celibacy and her lifelong companionship with another woman." "Idol of Suburbia is the first full-length study to address these questions and to set Corelli within the framework of literary history and contemporary critical theory."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11643544.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was the most popular novelist of the turn of the century, outselling Hall Caine, Mrs. Humphry Ward, H.G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle by the thousands. For thirty years she was ridiculed by reviewers and the literary elite - Edmund Gosse dismissed her as "that little milliner"--But these opinions had no impact on her mass appeal." "In examining Corelli's celebrity and her protean literary talents in the context of a changing book market, Federico reveals the profusion of the late-Victorian literary imagination. She analyzes Corelli's participation in literary decadence, feminism, and New Woman fiction, and she discusses how seriously we should take her aesthetic and its literary influence. Federico asks why heterosexual love seems pathological in so many of Corelli's novels and assesses the validity of biographical and psychoanalytic explanations of her celibacy and her lifelong companionship with another woman." "Idol of Suburbia is the first full-length study to address these questions and to set Corelli within the framework of literary history and contemporary critical theory."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "I. Queen of Best-Sellers and the Culture of Celebrity 14 -- II. Aestheticism in Suburbia 53 -- III. Ardor of the Pen 94 -- IV. Weltanschauung of Marie Corelli 128 -- V. Who Was Marie Corelli? 162.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index.".
- catalog extent "201 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813919150 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Victorian literature and culture series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "823/.8 21".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers England History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Feminism and literature England History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR4505 .F43 2000".
- catalog subject "Popular culture England History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Suburban life England History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Books and reading England.".
- catalog subject "Women England Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Queen of Best-Sellers and the Culture of Celebrity 14 -- II. Aestheticism in Suburbia 53 -- III. Ardor of the Pen 94 -- IV. Weltanschauung of Marie Corelli 128 -- V. Who Was Marie Corelli? 162.".
- catalog title "Idol of suburbia : Marie Corelli and late-Victorian literary culture / Annette R. Federico.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".