1st Edition
Marie Corelli: Modernism, Morality, and Metaphysics
1. Introduction – Marie Corelli: A Critical Reappraisal
Carol Margaret Davison and Elaine M. Hartnell
2. Moral Uncertainty and the Afterlife: Explaining the Popularity of Marie Corelli’s Early Novels
Nickianne Moody
3. The Corellian Romance contra Modernity: The Treasure of Heaven and Innocent
Martin Hipsky
4. ‘‘Je t’aime . . . moi non plus’’: Deconstructing Love in Open Confession to a Man from a Woman
Julia Kuehn
5. The Genius in Ardath: The Story of A Dead Self
Alisha Siebers
6. Marie Corelli’s Best-selling Electric Creed
Robyn Hallim
7. Morals and Metaphysics: Marie Corelli, Religion and the Gothic
Elaine M. Hartnell
8. Marie Corelli’s Barabbas, The Sorrows of Satan and Generic Transition
Benjamin F. Fisher
Biography
Carol Margaret Davison is Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature, 1764-1824 (2009) and Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (2004). She has edited several books and dozens of articles and book chapters on Gothic literature.
Elaine M. Hartnell is currently teaching English at the University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. She is the author of Gender, Religion and Domesticity in the Novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey (2000) and of numerous articles and chapters on Victorian literature, the Gothic, and domestic fiction.
