Mariaconcetta Costantini

Mrs. Henry Wood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new book examines the career and works of Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood [nee Ellen Strand Price, 1814-87), the author of the enormously successful and sensational mid-Victorian bestseller: East Lynne (1861), and many others. / Thomas Seccombe's DNB notice of Mrs. Wood in 1900 said that The Channings had sold 200,000 by 1898; The Shadow of Ashlydyat (

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edward Everett Root
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781912224937
• ISBN-10: 1912224933
• Artikelnr.: 55877436

Autorenporträt

Mariaconcetta Costantini is Professor of English Literature at G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, and, from 2021, Visiting Professor at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK. Her areas of research and teaching are Victorian literature and culture, and postcolonial literature. She has published six monographs, articles, and book chapters. Her publications also include essays on contemporary fiction and Anglophone writers, with particular attention to African authors (Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, Dennis Brutus). She has explored different aspects of Okri's oeuvre, given papers on him, and published articles, book chapters, and a monograph ("Behind the Mask. A Study of Ben Okri's Fiction," 2002). Professor Costantini serves on several editorial boards both in Italy and abroad, among them "Gothic Studies," "The Hopkins Quarterly," "Crime Fiction Studies," "Italian Americana." She is co-editor of the book series "AngloSophia. Studies in English Literature and Culture" and the online peer-reviewed journal "Victorian Popular Fictions."