Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Essays
Redaktion: Ford, Jane; Gray, Alexandra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays contained in this volume explore Malet's authorial experience-from both within the mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from outside it-supplementing and nuancing current debates about fin-de-siècle women's writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429627705
• Artikelnr.: 55264393

Autorenporträt

Jane Ford is a Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University. She is a specialist in the literature and culture of the fin de siècle and she is currently completing a monograph which examines the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late-nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest and exploitation. She is co-editor of Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives (Routledge, 2016) and has published essays on Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford. Alexandra Gray is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. Alexandra's research interests include the New Woman, fin-de-siècle literature and culture, art history and criticism and medical and psychiatric history. She has recently published her first monograph, Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), and has also written on the work of Irish New Woman, George Egerton, hyperhidrosis in fiction, and the orphan figure in Victorian literature and culture. She is a co-editor of 'The Gateless Barrier, ' an online impact project for the purposes of feminist literary recovery, featuring research on Lucas Malet's life and work.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Brief Chronology of Lucas Malet's Life and Works
Foreword: Patricia Lorimer Lundberg
Reading Malet "through the eyelashes": An Introduction to her Life and
Work.
JANE FORD AND ALEXANDRA GRAY
Maletian Bodies
1. Hysterical Bodies and Gothic Spaces: Lucas Malet's "Moral
Dissecting-Room."
LOUISE BENSON JAMES
2. "That very ugly saddle": Disability, Adaptation and Paternal Inheritance
in The History of Sir Richard Calmady.
CLARE WALKER GORE
3. "Vanity of Vanities": The Bildungsroman, Corporeal Fragility and the
Aesthetic Ideal in The Far Horizon.
ALANI HICKS-BARTLETT
Dissident Women
4. Mad Dogs and English (New) Women: Grotesque Gender in The Carissima.
ALEXANDRA GRAY
5. Cosmopolitan Romance and Feminist Aestheticism in Adrian Savage.
CATHERINE DELYFER
6. The Authorial Ambition of Deadham Hard: Reimagining Womanhood,
Profession and Desire.
CRESCENT RAINWATER
Malet and her Contemporaries
7. Reorienting the Bildungsroman: Progress Narratives, Queerness and
Disability in The History of Sir Richard Calmady and Jude the Obscure.
JILL EHNENN
8. Some Chapter of Some Other Story: Henry James, Lucas Malet, and the Real
Past of The Sense of the Past.
TALIA SCHAFFER
Catholic (proto-)Modernism
9. Against the English Nation: The ideological Proto-modernism of The Far
Horizon.
HOLLY LAIRD
10. "Undecode-able wireless signals": Telepathy and Contamination in The
Survivors.
JANE FORD
Appendix
In Memoriam, Ernest D. Chesterfield.
LUCAS MALET
Telling the Untold Stories: Lucas Malet's Critique of an Aesthetic Trope.
RUTH ROBBINS