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Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels

by Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Ashgate, (Aldershot, Hants, England ; | Burlington, VT :) Physical details: 188 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Women in literature. | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. | Fairy tales -- Great Britain -- History and criticism. | Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism. | Children's stories, English -- History and criticism. | Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism. | Femininity in literature. | Human body in literature. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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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).

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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