Product Description: Marie Corelli (1855–1924) was the most popular novelist of the turn of the century, outselling Hall Caine, Mrs. Humphry Ward, H. G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle by the thousands. For thirty years she was ridiculed by reviewers and the literary elite―Edmund Gosse dismissed her as "that little milliner"―but these opinions had no impact on her mass appeal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work discusses how both Hardy and Gissing dramatize the tensions in Victorian masculinity by describing men who are emotionally and psychologically entrapped by the roles they impose upon themselves.