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A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novel Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women's writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian 'bestseller'. In addition to the full text, the volume contains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendices to provide context and underline the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romance. Andrew Radford is Lecturer in Anglo-American Literature at the University of Glasgow. Cover image: Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-4191-9 Barcode
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Further Reading
A Romance of Two Worlds. A Novel
Volume I
Prologue
I. An Artist's Studio
II. The Mysterious Potion
III. Three Visions
IV. A Dance and a Promise
V. Cellini's Story
VI. The Hotel Mars and its Owner
VII. Zara and Prince Ivan
VIII. A Symphony in the Air
IX. An Electric Shock
Volume II
I. My Strange Departure
II. A Miniature Creation
III. Secrets of the Sun and Moon
IV. Sociable Converse
V. The Electric Creed
VI. Death by Lightning
VII. The Struggle for the Mastery
VIII. Conclusion
Appendices
About the author
Marie Corelli was a best-selling English author of more than 20 romantic melodramatic novels. Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include
British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, Palgrave, 2021),
The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, Routledge, 2018),
Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism: The Enchantment of Place (Bloomsbury, 2014) and
Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940 (Bloomsbury, 2010). He has recently published a critical edition of Marie Corelli's occult bestseller
A Romance of Two Worlds (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
Summary
Marie Corelli's 'A Romance of Two Worlds' is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel.
