Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
By Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that leave from mainstream realism, from fairy stories through George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by way of Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. female illustration, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is admittedly provided in a hyper-realistic method in such anti-realistic genres as kid's literature and sensation fiction. in truth, it truly is exactly the conflict among delusion and truth that permits the narratives to interrogate the true and re-create a brand new kind of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to comprise the feminine physique. In her exploration of the feminine physique and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses particularly at the hyperlinks among the feminine characters and consumerism, and exhibits how those serve to light up the tensions underlying the illustration of the Victorian ideal.
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