Bazaar-literature : charity, advocacy, and parody in Victorian social reform fiction / Leslee Thorne-Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorne-Murphy, Leslee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Social problems in literature.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Biography/History:

Leslee Thorne-Murphy is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where she teaches British literature. In addition, she currently serves as Associate Dean of the College of Humanities. She co-edited The Discourse of Philanthropy in the Anglo-American Tradition, 1850-1920 with Frank Christianson, and she co-edits The Victorian Short Fiction Project with her students.

Summary:

Charity bazaars were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars--which shaped the social, political, and literary movements of its time.

Contents:

Introduction : women, fancy fairs, and social reform

Bazaar discourse : the history and culture of the fundraising fair. "A booth in vanity fair" : charity bazaars and the methods of fiction

Sites of civil society : the bazaar woman in a mimic market

Literature at the bazaar. Fair value : the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League Bazaar and Harriet Martineau's "Dawn Island"

"In my broken heart's disdain" : sentimental disengagement and religious parody in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point"

Fictional bazaars : depictions of fancy fairs within Victorian fiction. Bazaar authorship : fiction and philanthropy in Charlotte M. Yonge's "The daisy chain" and "The three brides"

Myth and revelation : Maggie as bazaar woman in George Eliot's "The mill on the Floss"

(Un)truthful narration : flirtation and predation in Frances Trollope's "The Vicar of Wrexhill" and Anthony Trollope's "Miss Mackenzie"

Conclusion : Fancy fair or nonesuch bazaar?

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Thorne-Murphy, Leslee Bazaar Literature

ISBN:

9780191957819

019195781X

9780192692375

0192692372

9780192692382

0192692380