Marie Corelli, a Romance of Two Worlds

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Marie Corelli

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Hardback

Series:

Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth Century Texts

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A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novel Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women's writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian 'bestseller'. Key Features Contains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendices Provides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romance Engages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author

Author Biography:

Marie Corelli was a best-selling English author of more than 20 romantic melodramatic novels. Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, Palgrave, 2021), The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, Routledge, 2018), Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism: The Enchantment of Place (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940 (Bloomsbury, 2010). He has recently published a critical edition of Marie Corelli's occult bestseller A Romance of Two Worlds (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

Release date NZ

April 30th, 2019

Author

Marie Corelli

Series

Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth Century Texts

Contributor

Edited by Andrew D Radford

Pages

272

Audience

General (US: Trade)

ISBN-13

9781474441919

Product ID

28474125

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