Description
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: Marie Corelli
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9781474481663
ISBN10: 1474481663
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | Victorian
- Fiction | Romance | Science Fiction
About the Author
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, 2021), The Occult Imagination in Britain 1875-1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, 2018), Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism: The Enchantment of Place (2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940 (2010). He has recently published a critical edition of Marie Corelli's occult bestseller A Romance of Two Worlds (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).