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Titre(s) : Reinventing Marie Corelli for the twenty-first century [Texte imprimé] / edited by Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier
Publication : London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2019
Description matérielle : xii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 197-213. Index
"Once upon a time, Marie Corelli was the most popular, and bestselling, writer in
the world. In England she was just as well known as Charles Dickens, according to
one of her biographers, George Bullock (117).1 Another biographer claimed that while
Queen Victoria was alive, Corelli was the 'second most famous Englishwoman in the
world' (Masters 6). More than half of her thirty novels sold more than 100,000 copies
each year (Casey 163), a record that outpaces Hall Caine's annual sales of 45,000,
Mrs. Humphrey Ward's of 35,000 and H. G. Wells' of 15,000 (Masters 6). Her sales exceeded
those of Rudyard Kipling's, Arthur Conan Doyle's and H. G. Wells' combined (Casey
163). So popular were her books and her mystique, one cynic complained about the 'Corelli
Cult' (Stuart-Young 680). Women flocked to her and actually 'fought over each other
to get near her and tried to kiss the hem of her dress' (Masters 7). In the United
States a new church was formed to practice the 'Electric Creed' described in A Romance
of Two Worlds, and a town in Colorado was called Corelli City (Masters 94). 'Marie
Corelli' began her life as Mary Mills; with no existing birth certificate, she is
believed to have been born on May 1, 1855 in London to Mary Elizabeth (Ellen) Mills,
the mistress of Charles Mackay (Ransom 11 and Federico 4). Author, poet, and literary
editor for the Illustrated London News, Mackay was a married man (to Rose Henrietta
Vale) and father of four other children. Little Mary Mills was told he was her stepfather--his
absence from her life was constant until the death of his wife and the marriage of
her biological parents in 1861, at which point she becomes Mary Mackay but is known
as 'Minnie.' (Ransom 11 and Federico 7)"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ayres, Brenda (1953-....). Éditeur scientifique
Maier, Sarah Elizabeth (1968-....). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Reinventing Marie Corelli for the 21st century
Sujet(s) : Corelli, Marie (1855-1924) -- Critique et interprétation
Genre ou forme : Littérature anglaise -- Femmes écrivains
Indice(s) Dewey :
823.8 (23e éd.) = Roman de langue anglaise - 1837-1899 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781783089437. - ISBN 1783089431. - ISBN 9781783089451 (erroné). - ISBN 9781783089444
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb469445361
Notice n° :
FRBNF46944536
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Stratford-upon-Avon's "great little lady" / Nick Leigh Birch ; From "girl alone"
to "genius" : Corelli's transforming epistolary rhetoric / Colleen Morrissey ; Marie
Corelli, the public sphere and public opinion / Julia Kuehn ; "The muses are women;
so are the fates" : Corelli's literary masquerade(s) / Sarah E. Maier ; The devil
& Miss Corelli : re-gendering the diabolical and the redemptive in the sorrows of
Satan / Julianne Smith ; Muscular Christianity unbound : masculinity in Ardath /
Gareth Hadyk-DeLodder ; Over her (un) dead body : gender politics, mediumship and
feminist spiritual theology in the works of Marie Corelli / Carol Margaret Davison
; "The story of a dead self" : the theosophical novels of Marie Corelli / Brenda Ayres
; "Something vile in the composition" : Marie Corelli's Ziska, decadent portraiture
and the new woman / Angie Blumberg.
