Ouida the phenomenon : evolving social, political, and gender concerns in her fiction / Natalie Schroeder and Shari Hodges Holt.
| Author/creator |
Schroeder, Natalie, 1941- |
| Other author/creator | Holt, Shari Hodges, 1964- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2008. |
| Description | 283 pages ; 25 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction: a miracle of modern literature -- Dandies, angels, and adventuresses -- Ouida in transition: "romanticist pure et simple" and champion of the oppressed -- Ouida's tragic vision: materialism, commodification, and the artist -- Male predators, female victims, and the plight of the female artist: "the glory disk of females is only a crown of thorns" -- Love, pity, and indictment: the poetics and politics of the Italian novels -- Subversion and submission to male power in Ouida's female gothic -- European novels of society: fantasies of female empowerment -- Marriage and the Ouidean new woman: the bondage of domestic monotony -- The fin de siècle: the age of "decadence". |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008014173 |
| ISBN | 9780874130331 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0874130336 (alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR 4528 .S37 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |