Marie Corelli, a Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel - Brossura

Corelli, Marie

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ISBN 10: 1474481663 ISBN 13: 9781474481663

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2021

Riassunto

A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novel
Marie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women’s writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian ‘bestseller’.
Key Features
Contains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendicesProvides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli’s supernatural romanceEngages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author

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Informazioni sull?autore

Marie Corelli was a best-selling English author of more than 20 romantic melodramatic novels.

Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945-1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, Palgrave, 2021), The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875–1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, Routledge, 2018), Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism: The Enchantment of Place (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870–1940 (Bloomsbury, 2010). He has recently published a critical edition of Marie Corelli’s occult bestseller A Romance of Two Worlds (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

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A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novelMarie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women’s writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian ‘bestseller’.In addition to the full text, the volume contains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendices to provide context and underline the aesthetic significance of Corelli’s supernatural romance.Andrew Radford is Lecturer in Anglo-American Literature at the University of Glasgow.Cover image:Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4191-9Barcode

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474481663
• ISBN 13: 9781474481663
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Radford Andrew D.
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