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BL
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1006668
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b761038
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| Main Entry
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Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.
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| Title & Author
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Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels /\ Laurence Talairach-Vielmas.
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| Publication Statement
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Aldershot, Hants, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (188 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0754687309
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: 9780754687306
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0754660346
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9780754660347
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: femininity through the looking-glass -- That that is, is: the bondage of stories in Jean Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy (1864) -- 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).
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| Abstract
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Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in fairy tales and sensation novels by authors such as George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens. In the clash between fantasy and reality, these authors create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body, and illuminates the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.
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Children's stories, English-- History and criticism.
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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Fairy tales-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction, English-- History and criticism.
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Femininity in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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Popular literature-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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Children's stories, English.
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English fiction.
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Fairy tales.
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Fantasy fiction, English.
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Femininity in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Popular literature.
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Women in literature.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8099287
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| LC Classification
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PR878.W6T36 2007eb
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