Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.

Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels [electronic resource] / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. - 188 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.

Introduction: femininity through the looking-glass -- That that is, is: the bondage of stories in Jean Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy (1864) -- Macdonald's fallen angel in The light princess (1864) -- Drawing muchnesses in Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in wonderland (1865) -- Taming the female body in Juliana Horatia Ewing's Amelia and the dwarfs (1870) and Christina Rossetti's Speaking likenesses (1874) -- A journey through the crystal palace: Rhoda Broughton's politics of plate-glass in Not wisely but too well (1867) -- Investigating books of beauties in Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) and M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's secret (1862) -- Shaping the female consumer in Wilkie Collins's No name (1862) -- Rachel Leverson and the London beauty salon: female aestheticism and criminality in Wilkie Collins's Armadale (1864) -- Wilkie Collins's modern Snow White: arsenic consumption and ghastly complexions in The law and the lady (1875).


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Women in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Fairy tales--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.
Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
Popular literature--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Femininity in literature.
Human body in literature.


Electronic books.

PR878.W6 / T36 2007eb

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