Marie Corelli, a Romance of Two Worlds

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Marie Corelli was a best-selling English author of more than 20 romantic melodramatic novels. Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, Palgrave, 2021), The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, Routledge, 2018), Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism: The Enchantment of Place (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940 (Bloomsbury, 2010). He has recently published a critical edition of Marie Corelli's occult bestseller A Romance of Two Worlds (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

Klappentext

A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novel Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women's writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian 'bestseller'. In addition to the full text, the volume contains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendices to provide context and underline the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romance. Andrew Radford is Lecturer in Anglo-American Literature at the University of Glasgow. Cover image: Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-4191-9 Barcode

Zusammenfassung
Marie Corelli's 'A Romance of Two Worlds' is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Further Reading

* A Romance of Two Worlds. A Novel

• Volume I
  Prologue
  I. An Artist's Studio
  II. The Mysterious Potion
  III. Three Visions
  IV. A Dance and a Promise
  V. Cellini's Story
  VI. The Hotel Mars and its Owner
  VII. Zara and Prince Ivan
  VIII. A Symphony in the Air
  IX. An Electric Shock

Volume II
I. My Strange Departure
II. A Miniature Creation
III. Secrets of the Sun and Moon
IV. Sociable Converse
V. The Electric Creed
VI. Death by Lightning
VII. The Struggle for the Mastery
VIII. Conclusion

Appendices