Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.
EER
Marie Corelli
Available December 2025
About this book
Jo turner’s work continues the main lines of argument and foci that feminist criticism has seen since its inception: of the female author, female characters (Thelma, Irene Vassilius, Mavis Clare) and tropes (e.g. the mother, the girl of the period), of écriture feminine and of allegedly feminised genres (Gothic, melodrama, romance). At various points, Turner suggests ‘queering’ methods for Corelli which opens up a new approach to Corelli, beyond ‘conventional’ feminist criticism.
The work is up-to-date in terms of scholarly methodology and ‘theory’. While canon formation is not explicitly addressed, Turner contributes to ongoing debates about the place of the popular in (Victorian) scholarship and – by extension – in teaching.
About the author
Jo Turner of Loughborough University has specialized in the works of Marie Corelli. She authored entries on Corelli for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing, and also co organized the centenary conference on Corelli in 2024.
Reviews
“The volume is an outstanding work of scholarship."
“Jo Turner is, without a doubt, this generation’s foremost Corelli scholar. Her work offers a comprehensive review of one hundred years of Corelli reviews, biographies, early criticism and present scholarship. To this is added Turner’s own archival and genealogical research which has added much detail to existing work and also filled significant research gaps.
“The Corelli Bibliography is welcome and the first of its kind in terms of completeness.
Turner interweaves biography and the socio-historical contexts of writing and publishing with brief, theory-embedded readings of Corelli’s various works (poetry, essays, criticism, novels, short fiction, biography). Her overviews and analyses are firmly, and at all times, embedded in questions of gender and the era’s gendering. Thus fulfilling the raison d’être of the Key Popular Women Writers’ series. “ - Professor Julia Kuehn.
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216 x 140mm. 226 pp.
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