Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation NovelsRoutledge, 15 de abr. de 2016 - 200 páginas Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal. |
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The Bondage of Stories in Jean Ingelows Mopsa the Fairy 1869 | 17 |
2 MacDonalds Fallen Angel in The Light Princess 1864 | 33 |
3 Drawing Muchnesses in Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland 1865 | 49 |
4 Taming the Female Body in Juliana Horatia Ewings Amelia and the Dwarfs 1870 and Christina Rossettis Speaking Likenesses 1874 | 67 |
Rhoda Broughtons Politics of PlateGlass in Not Wisely But Too Well 1867 | 89 |
6 Investigating Books of Beauties in Charles Dickenss Bleak House 1853 and ME Braddons Lady Audleys Secret 1862 | 113 |
7 Shaping the Female Consumer in Wilkie Collinss No Name 1862 | 133 |
Female Aestheticism and Criminality in Wilkie Collinss Armadale 1864 | 147 |
Arsenic Consumption and Ghastly Complexions in The Law and the Lady 1875 | 159 |
Conclusion | 173 |
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