TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of 'Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction: The Art of Female Beauty', Kirby-Jane Hallum
AU - Ifill, Helena
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
JO - Cercles
JF - Cercles
SN - 1292-8968
ER -