TY - BOOK AU - Talairach-Vielmas,Laurence ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels AV - PR878.W6 T36 2007eb U1 - 823/.8099287 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Women in literature KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Fairy tales KW - Great Britain KW - Fantasy fiction, English KW - Children's stories, English KW - Popular literature KW - Femininity in literature KW - Human body in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index; Introduction: femininity through the looking-glass -- That that is, is: the bondage of stories in Jean Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy (1864) -- Macdonald's fallen angel in The light princess (1864) -- Drawing muchnesses in Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in wonderland (1865) -- Taming the female body in Juliana Horatia Ewing's Amelia and the dwarfs (1870) and Christina Rossetti's Speaking likenesses (1874) -- A journey through the crystal palace: Rhoda Broughton's politics of plate-glass in Not wisely but too well (1867) -- Investigating books of beauties in Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) and M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's secret (1862) -- Shaping the female consumer in Wilkie Collins's No name (1862) -- Rachel Leverson and the London beauty salon: female aestheticism and criminality in Wilkie Collins's Armadale (1864) -- Wilkie Collins's modern Snow White: arsenic consumption and ghastly complexions in The law and the lady (1875); Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/zegu/Doc?id=10211206 ER -