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Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and
proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931)
was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her
remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the
'broad church' priest and well-known Victorian author Charles
Kingsley; her sister Rose, uncle, Henry Kingsley and her cousin
Mary Henrietta Kingsley were also published authors. Malet was part
of a creative dynasty from which she drew inspiration but against
which she rebelled both in her personal life and her published
work. This collection brings together for the first time a
selection of scholarly essays on Malet's life and writing,
foregrounding her contributions to nineteenth- and
twentieth-century discourses surrounding disability, psychology,
religion, sexuality, the New Woman, and decadent, aesthetic and
modernist cultural movements. The essays contained in this volume
explore Malet's authorial experience-from both within the
mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from
outside it-supplementing and nuancing current debates about
fin-de-siecle women's writing. The collection asks the question
'who was Lucas Malet?' and 'how-despite its popularity-did her
courageous, unique and fascinating writing disappear from view for
so long?'
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and
why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect
in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siecle. At
the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of
economic thought marked the transition from a marketplace centred
around the fulfilment of 'needs' to one ministering to anything
that might, potentially, be desired. This collection considers how
the literature of the period meditates on the interaction between
economy and desire, doing so with particular reference to the
themes of fetishism, homoeroticism, the literary marketplace,
social hierarchy, and consumer culture. Drawing on theoretical and
conceptual approaches including queer theory, feminist theory, and
gift theory, contributors offer original analyses of work by
canonical and lesser-known writers, including Oscar Wilde, A.E.
Housman, Baron Corvo, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, and Lucas Malet.
The collection builds on recent critical developments in
fin-de-siecle literature (including major interventions in the
areas of Decadence, sexuality, and gender studies) and asks, for
instance, how did late nineteenth-century writing schematise the
libidinal and somatic dimensions of economic exchange? How might we
define the relationship between eroticism and the formal economies
of literary production/performance? And what relation exists
between advertising/consumer culture and (dissident) sexuality in
fin-de-siecle literary discourses? This book marks an important
contribution to 19th-Century and Victorian literary studies, and
enhances the field of fin-de-siecle studies more generally.
Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and
proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931)
was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her
remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the
'broad church' priest and well-known Victorian author Charles
Kingsley; her sister Rose, uncle, Henry Kingsley and her cousin
Mary Henrietta Kingsley were also published authors. Malet was part
of a creative dynasty from which she drew inspiration but against
which she rebelled both in her personal life and her published
work. This collection brings together for the first time a
selection of scholarly essays on Malet's life and writing,
foregrounding her contributions to nineteenth- and
twentieth-century discourses surrounding disability, psychology,
religion, sexuality, the New Woman, and decadent, aesthetic and
modernist cultural movements. The essays contained in this volume
explore Malet's authorial experience-from both within the
mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from
outside it-supplementing and nuancing current debates about
fin-de-siecle women's writing. The collection asks the question
'who was Lucas Malet?' and 'how-despite its popularity-did her
courageous, unique and fascinating writing disappear from view for
so long?'
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and
why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect
in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siecle. At
the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of
economic thought marked the transition from a marketplace centred
around the fulfilment of 'needs' to one ministering to anything
that might, potentially, be desired. This collection considers how
the literature of the period meditates on the interaction between
economy and desire, doing so with particular reference to the
themes of fetishism, homoeroticism, the literary marketplace,
social hierarchy, and consumer culture. Drawing on theoretical and
conceptual approaches including queer theory, feminist theory, and
gift theory, contributors offer original analyses of work by
canonical and lesser-known writers, including Oscar Wilde, A.E.
Housman, Baron Corvo, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, and Lucas Malet.
The collection builds on recent critical developments in
fin-de-siecle literature (including major interventions in the
areas of Decadence, sexuality, and gender studies) and asks, for
instance, how did late nineteenth-century writing schematise the
libidinal and somatic dimensions of economic exchange? How might we
define the relationship between eroticism and the formal economies
of literary production/performance? And what relation exists
between advertising/consumer culture and (dissident) sexuality in
fin-de-siecle literary discourses? This book marks an important
contribution to 19th-Century and Victorian literary studies, and
enhances the field of fin-de-siecle studies more generally.
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