Marie Corelli: Modernism, Morality, and Metaphysics by Carol ... - 9780367405267

Taylor & Francis

Marie Corelli: Modernism, Morality, and MetaphysicsAuthor(s): Carol Margaret Davison, Elaine M. Hartnell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367405267, 978-0367405267\nSynopsis\nThis collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corellis diverse fictional writings and locates them in their contemporary literary and social context.\n\nMarie Corelli [tel] was a fabulously popular novelist in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Yet, in her day, critics railed against her taste for sentimentality, melodrama, supernatural worlds, and overt didacticism. Many critics are still ambivalent about her writing. However, in their reappraisal, the contributors to this volume largely circumvent the earlier critics and engage afresh with Corellis writing strategies; genre choices; representations of social issues; and ideas about science, metaphysics, and morality. Moving beyond the now outdated project of \""recovery\.