01174nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801120007608200150018810000230020324500930022626000550031930000250037436500090039952004910040865000130089965000240091265000110093670000210094720260102121422.0260102b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780521022071  aInternational Book DistributorsbFlat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, New Delhic122277d06/12/2025  a823.80 GIL  aGilbert, Pamela K.  aDisease, Desire, And the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels.c/ Pamela K. Gilbert.  a, Cambridgeb: Cambridge University Pressc, 2005.  aviii, 209p.c: 24cm.  b3169  aPamela Gilbert argues that popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. She discusses work by three popular women novelists of the time: M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and "Ouida". Early and later novels of each writer are interpreted in the context of their reception, showing that attitudes toward fiction drew on Victorian beliefs about health, nationality, class and the body, beliefs that the fictions themselves both resisted and exploited.  aDisease   aDesire and the Body  aNovels  aPamela K Gilbert