Allan, JM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4484-7778
2011,
'A 'base and spurious thing': Reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857)'
, Critical Survey, 23 (1)
, pp. 8-24.
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Abstract
Concentrating on Ellen Wood’s Parkwater, a little-known New Monthly Magazine serial, this article attempts to complicate the long-standing construction of Wood as a ‘quiet sensationalist’. It argues that Wood’s serial was self-consciously appealing to the New Monthly’s male readers and thus incorporated scenes and details of a surprisingly graphic nature. At the same time, the article situates the narrative within the context of a new commodity culture, as well as the 1857 murder trial of Madeleine Smith, suggesting that Wood’s exploration of deceptive femininity resonates with current events in a particularly insistent manner.
Item Type: | Article |
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Themes: | Memory, Text and Place |
Schools: | Schools > School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences > Centre for English Literature and Language |
Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Survey |
Publisher: | Berghahn Journals |
Refereed: | Yes |
ISSN: | 0011-1570 |
Depositing User: | Users 29196 not found. |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2012 10:46 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2022 16:19 |
URI: | https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/19387 |
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