Abstract
Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction explores five novels in the light of the aesthetic movement and the commodification of women in the Victorian marriage market: Rhoda Broughton’s Cometh up as a Flower (1867), George Meredith’s The Egoist (1879), Ouida’s Moths (1880), Marie Corelli’s Wormwood (1890) and George du Maurier’s Trilby (1894). By choosing novels which are disparate in tone and style, and which move from aestheticism’s ‘foundations in Pre-Raphaelitism, its fashionable success at its high point in the 1870s and 1880s, through to its eventual diffusion into decadent and fin-de-siècle culture at the end of the Victorian period’ [2], Hallum is able to draw some enlightening similarities and contrasts between the texts.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Cercles |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |