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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope

By: Abigail Burnham Bloom

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope

By: Abigail Burnham Bloom

The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. This four-volume set includes scholarly editions of her four novels, in which her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage is an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time. At the time of their reception all four novels were considered to be the most hilarious and beloved of Trollope’s works. In their satire of Victorian marriage, they challenged and complicated the normative practices of getting married, being married, and getting married again. Trollope’s creation of strong, independent, older women is an antidote to other Victorian novelists’ portrayal of widows and spinsters, and her novels challenge our understanding of the characteristics of the novels of the 1830s and 1840s, especially in their depiction of Victorian gender dynamics as well as their influence on succeeding novels.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040156061

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9781040156063

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 4

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 4

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.

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428

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1040243614

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9781040243619

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 3

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 3

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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424

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1040246192

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 2

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 2

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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381

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1040250297

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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412

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1040243061

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9781040243060

The Literary Monster on Film

Five Nineteenth Century British Novels and Their Cinematic Adaptations

By: Abigail Burnham Bloom

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The Literary Monster on Film

Five Nineteenth Century British Novels and Their Cinematic Adaptations

By: Abigail Burnham Bloom

Many monsters in Victorian British novels were intimately connected with the protagonists, and representative of both the personal failings of a character and the failings of the society in which he or she lived. By contrast, more recent film adaptations of these novels depict the creatures as arbitrarily engaging in senseless violence, and suggest a modern fear of the uncontrollable. This work analyzes the dichotomy through examinations of Shelley's Frankenstein, Stoker's Dracula, H. Rider Haggard's She, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, and consideration of the 20th century film adaptations of the works.

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219

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McFarland

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0786457597

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9780786457595

The Literary Monster on Film

Five Nineteenth Century British Novels and Their Cinematic Adaptations

By: Abigail Burnham Bloom

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Five Nineteenth Century British Novels and Their Cinematic Adaptations

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Geraldine Jewsbury

By: Abigail Burnham Bloom

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Geraldine Jewsbury

By: Abigail Burnham Bloom

This innovative new work presents a critical, aesthetic and historical approach to the significant novelist and critic Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1812-1880). / Jewsbury was a truly accomplished Victorian woman of letters. She wrote six novels, two novels for children, articles and short stories as well as innumerable book reviews and influential reports for publishers. Her work is being newly recovered by a new generation. / Her first two novels, Zoe: A History of Two Lives (1845) and The Half Sisters (1848), were best sellers, and considered scandalous when published. They, like all of her novels, concern the difficulties of women in traditional roles - the problems of careers for women, the deficiencies of education for women, women's unrealistic expectations of marriage, and their lack of satisfaction with their lives. / Contents: Ch. 1: Introduction: Rediscovering Geraldine Jewsbury; Ch. 2: Early Influences: Becoming Geraldine Jewsbury; Ch.3: The Carlyles and Zoe: Discovering the World; Ch.4: Jewsbury's Career in Fiction: Educating Readers; Ch.5: Jane Carlyle, Walter Mantell, and Other Friendships: Developing Intimacies; Ch. 6: Jewsbury as a Reviewer and Editor: Forwarding the Cause of Women; Ch.7: Jewsbury as a Publisher's Reader: Reading for Women; Ch. 8: Jewsbury's Legacy: Jewsbury Today.

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