Aestheticism and the marriage market in Victorian popular fiction
Subtitle: the art of female beauty
By: by Kirby-Jane Hallum
Series: Literary texts and the popular market -- no. 8; Literary texts and the popular market -- no. 8.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781315654072
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Aestheticism (Literature); Marriage in literature; Littérature anglaise; Histoire et critique; Esthétisme (Littérature); Mariage dans la littérature
Notes: Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. 'Two lovers to decide their rival claim to the possession of my person' : Rhoda Broughton's Cometh up as a flower; title: 2. The 'aesthetics of love' in George Meredith's The egoist; title: 3. 'A lovely woman whom he had bought' : the market for aesthetic commodities in Ouida's Moths; title: 4. 'I love beauty : and I study it wherever I find it, dead or living' : Marie Corelli's Wormwood; title: 5. 'Love for love's sake' : George du Maurier's Trilby.