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‘Eulogiseth Marie: A Critic’s Review of Recent Corelli Scholarship’
Author(s) -
Kuehn Julia
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00904.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , zeitgeist , biography , criticism , publishing , phenomenon , literature , history , psychology , art , law , philosophy , epistemology , political science
This essay offers an overview of scholarly research conducted on late‐Victorian bestselling author Marie Corelli over the past few decades. It first traces the various phases of scholarly interest in this popular writer: from biography to bibliography and ‘rediscovery’, to the ‘publishing phenomenon’ and zeitgeist criticism of the past 10 years. In a second step the essay then offers a personal assessment of where Corelli scholarship might be going, or indeed should be going, in the future.