Reinventing Marie Corelli For The Twenty First Century

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783089444

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Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

Novelist Marie Corelli was extremely popular at the turn of the century, so much so that J. M. Stuart-Young complained about the ‘Corelli Cult’. Corelli broke all sales records during the 30 years of her publishing. Her books have enjoyed a resurgence of interest over the past two decades for various reasons but ostensibly due to their challenge to gender constrictions. Corelli’s perception of gender and her gender demeanor were complicated and mercurial. Speculation that she was transgendered, a deduction drawn from her writing and from her having lived in an intimate relationship with Bertha Vyver for 64 years, makes her a person of interest today. Additionally, her 30 novels, short stories and essays are all in print and they reflect a myriad of themes and experiences as relevant today, if not more so, than during the late Victorian period. So far, other than a special issue of ‘Women’s Writing’ in 2006, no collection of essays on Corelli has been published. ‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ is the first to remedy that, prompted by her current popularity, a desire to introduce her to a new generation and to instigate critical inquiry that will offer an appreciation for her themes, style and historical place in the literary canon.

Author : Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1753 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030783181

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing by Lesa Scholl,Emily Morris Pdf

Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.

Author : Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres,Danielle Mariann Dove
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031062018

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Neo-Victorian Things by Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres,Danielle Mariann Dove Pdf

Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.

Author : Suzy Woltmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793625953

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Woke Cinderella by Suzy Woltmann Pdf

Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes: incarnations of the "Cinderella" fairy tale have resonated throughout the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale exists a history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment. This book examines twenty-first-century “Cinderella” adaptations that envision the classic tale in the twenty-first century through the lens of wokenesss by shifting rhetorical implications and self-reflexively granting different possibilities for protagonists. The contributors argue that the "Cinderella" archetype expands past traditional takes on the passive princess. From Sex and the City to Game of Thrones, from cyborg "Cinderellas" to Inglorious Basterds, contributors explore gender-bending and feminist adaptations, explorations of race and the body, and post-human and post-truth rewritings. The collection posits that contemporary “Cinderella” adaptations create a substantive cultural product that both inform and reflect a contemporary social zeitgeist.

Author : Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785272196

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Neo-Gothic Narratives by Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres Pdf

Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether there is room for humour besides the sobriety and horror in these narratives across various media. What attracts us to the Gothic that makes us want to resurrect, reinvent, echo it? Why do we let the Gothic redefine us? Why do we let it haunt us? Does it speak to us through intertexuality, self-reflectivity, metafiction, immersion, affect? Are we reclaiming the history of women and other subalterns in the Gothic that had been denied in other forms of history? Are we revisiting the trauma of English colonisation and seeking national identity? Or are we simply tourists who enjoy cruising through the otherworld? The essays in this volume investigate both the readerly experience of Neo-Gothic narratives as well as their writerly pastiche.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah Elizabeth Maier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000760125

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Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture by Brenda Ayres,Sarah Elizabeth Maier Pdf

Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in literature taught Victorian children how to be behave. If you are a postmodern posthumanist, you might argue, "But the animals in literature did not write their own accounts." Animal characters may be the creations of writers’ imagination, but animals did and do exist in their own right, as did and do humans. The original essays in Animals and Their Children in Victorian explore the representation of animals in children’s literature by resisting an anthropomorphized perception of them. Instead of focusing on the domestication of animals, this book analyzes how animals in literature "civilize" children, teaching them how to get along with fellow creatures—both human and nonhuman.

Author : Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030465827

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Neo-Victorian Madness by Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres Pdf

Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were “mad.” Such portraits demand a “rediagnosing” of mental illness that was often reduced to only female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness, disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000469387

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The Theological Dickens by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward Dissenters, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews, they have also disagreed about Dickens’ thoughts on Unitarianism and speculated on doctrines of Protestantism that he endorsed or rejected. Besides addressing his depiction of these religious groups, the volume’s contributors locate gaps in scholarship and unresolved illations about poverty and charity, representations of children, graveyards, labor, scientific controversy, and other social issues through an investigation of Dickens’ theological concerns. In addition, given that Dickens’ texts continue to influence every generation around the globe, a timely inclusion in the collection is a consideration of the neo-Victorian multi-media representations of Dickens’ work and his ideas on theological questions pitched to a postmodern society.

Author : Natalie Neill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793636584

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Gothic Mash-Ups by Natalie Neill Pdf

Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. Their chapters investigate many critical issues related to Gothic mash-up, including authorship, originality, intellectual property, fandom, commercialization, and canonicity. Although varied in approach, the chapters all explore how Gothic storytellers make new stories out of older ones, relying on a mix of appropriation and innovation. Covering many examples of mash-up, from nineteenth-century Gothic novels to twenty-first-century video games and interactive fiction, this collection builds from the premise that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030835156

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A Vindication of the Redhead by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures. This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide a history of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired individuals, groups, and genders from antiquity to the present. Ayres and Maier explore such diverse topics as Judeo-Christian narratives of red hair, redheads in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, red hair and gender identity, famous literary redheads such as Anne of Green Gables and Pippi Longstocking, contemporary and Neo-Victorian representations of redheads from the Black Widow to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and more. This book illuminates the symbolic significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031321603

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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’ life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century. Contextualized by Sarah E Maier and Brenda Ayres in a comprehensive introduction, the collection describes current trends in neo-Victorian scholarship of novels, film, theatre, crime, empire/postcolonialism, Gothic, materiality, religion and science, amongst others. A variety of scholars from around the world contribute to this volume by applying an assortment of theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary focus in their critique of a wide range of narratives—from early neo-Victorian texts such as A. S. Byatt’s Possession (1963) and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to recent steampunk, from musical theatre to slumming, and from The Alienist to queerness—in their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.

Author : Thomas F. G. Coates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:681315260

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Marie Corelli by Thomas F. G. Coates Pdf

Author : Brooke Cameron,Lara Karpenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000598452

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The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Brooke Cameron,Lara Karpenko Pdf

Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period’s fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at both the range among and legacy of vampires in the nineteenth century, including race, culture, social upheaval, gender and sexuality, new knowledge and technology. The figure increased in popularity throughout the century and reached its climax in Dracula (1897), the most famous story of bloodsuckers. This book includes chapters on Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, as well as touchstone texts like John William Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819) and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872), but it also focuses on the many “Other” vampire stories of the period. Topics discussed include: the long-war veteran and aristocratic vampire in Varney; the vampire as addict in fiction by George MacDonald; time discipline in Eric Stenbock’s Studies of Death; fragile female vampires in works by Eliza Lynn Linton; the gender and sexual contract in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne;” cultural appropriation in Richard Burton’s Vikram and the Vampire; as well as Caribbean vampires and the racialized Other in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire. While drawing attention to oft-overlooked stories, this study ultimately highlights the vampire as a cultural shape-shifter whose role as “Other” tells us much about Victorian culture and readers’ fears or desires.

Author : T. F. Coates,Warren Bell
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0787301868

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Marie Corelli by T. F. Coates,Warren Bell Pdf

1903 a biographical study of this modern mystic whose works were obviously inspired. Marie Corelli's unique personality has aroused interest and curiosity among all classes.

Author : T. F. G. Coates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1331289807

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Marie Corelli by T. F. G. Coates Pdf

Excerpt from Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman Miss Marie Corelli's unique personality has aroused interest and curiosity among all classes of society, and we are aware that the present work will be diligently searched for intimate information regarding the subject of these pages. It behooves us, therefore, to remind those who peruse this volume that the writing of contemporary biography is a most delicate literary performance; so, while it has been our aim to set before the public as many particulars as possible concerning Marie Corelli the Woman - as distinct from Marie Corelli the Writer - it will be apparent to the least intelligent of our patrons that, in common courtesy to Miss Corelli, it is possible for us to publish only a limited number of personal minutiae concerning the novelist during her lifetime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."