Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels by Pamela K. Gilbert

Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Pamela K. Gilbert

220 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction gender informative reflective slow-paced
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Pamela Gilbert argues that popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. She discusses work by three popular women novelists of the time: M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and "Ouida." Early and later novels of ...

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