Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels

Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas.

Author/creator	Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007.
Description	188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
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.

Contents	Introduction: femininity through the looking-glass -- 'That that is, is': the bondage of stories in Jean Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy (1869) -- 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).
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.
LCCN	2007010451
ISBN	9780754660347 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0754660346 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR 878.W6 T36 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold