Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds
A Novel
Published on 16. February 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4744-8166-3 (ISBN)
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 appendicesProvides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romanceEngages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author
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 appendicesProvides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romanceEngages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
441 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8166-3 (9781474481663)
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E-Book
04/2019
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
€28.49
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Persons
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, UK. His books include The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (co-edited with Suzanne Hobson, 2023), 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 (2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel (2010). He has recently published a critical edition of George Borrow's autobiographical novel Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest with Edinburgh University Press (2023).
Content
AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's PrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextFurther Reading
A Romance of Two Worlds. A Novel
Volume IPrologue I. An Artist's Studio II. The Mysterious Potion III. Three Visions IV. A Dance and a Promise V. Cellini's Story VI. The Hotel Mars and its Owner VII. Zara and Prince Ivan VIII. A Symphony in the Air IX. An Electric Shock
Volume III. My Strange DepartureII. A Miniature CreationIII. Secrets of the Sun and MoonIV. Sociable ConverseV. The Electric CreedVI. Death by LightningVII. The Struggle for the MasteryVIII. Conclusion
Appendices
A Romance of Two Worlds. A Novel
Volume IPrologue I. An Artist's Studio II. The Mysterious Potion III. Three Visions IV. A Dance and a Promise V. Cellini's Story VI. The Hotel Mars and its Owner VII. Zara and Prince Ivan VIII. A Symphony in the Air IX. An Electric Shock
Volume III. My Strange DepartureII. A Miniature CreationIII. Secrets of the Sun and MoonIV. Sociable ConverseV. The Electric CreedVI. Death by LightningVII. The Struggle for the MasteryVIII. Conclusion
Appendices