Ouida

This new study of Marie Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908), who wrote under the pseudonym Ouida, considers the best-selling Victorian author's vivid, evocative work and especially the complex, even complicated ways in which she envisions and portrays gender.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Helena Esser completed her PhD on Urban Imaginaries of Victorian London in Steampunk Fiction at Birkbeck College in 2020, and pursued her interest in Ouida alongside. She has published on steampunk in the London Literary Journal (11:2, 2014), Cahiers victoriens et éduardiens (87, 2018), Otherness: Essays & Studies (7:1, 2019), and Humanities (11: 1, 2022), and on neo-Victorianism in Neo-Victorian Studies (11:1, 2018) and the Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (2:1, 2020). She is currently co-organising the Victorian Popular Fiction Association's reading group on 'The Third Sex'. Her research on Ouida, which she has presented at the VPFA Annual Conferences, has been awarded the Greta Depedge PGR Prize 2019 and received honorary mention in the 2020 Margaret Elize Harkness Prize.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Helena Esser
• Verlag: Edward Everett Root
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781915115140
• ISBN: 978-1-915115-14-0
• Seiten: 230
• Abmessung: 145 mm x 222 mm x 16 mm
• Gewicht: 426 g
• Serie: Key Popular Women Writers
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika