Laurence Talairach-Vielmas is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France.

• Introduction Femininity through the Looking-Glass; Chapter 1 ‘That that is, is’ The Bondage of Stories in Jean Ingelow’s Mopsa The Fairy (1869); Chapter 2 MacDonald’s Fallen Angel in ‘The Light Princess’ (1864); Chapter 3 Drawing ‘Muchnesses’ in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Chapter 4 Chapter Four Taming the Female Body in Juliana Horatia Ewing’s ‘Amelia and the Dwarfs’ (1870) and Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses (1874); Chapter 5 Chapter Five A Journey through the Crystal Palace Rhoda Broughton’s Politics of Plate-Glass in Not Wisely But Too Well (1867); Chapter 6 Investigating Books of Beauties in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House (1853) and M.E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862); Chapter 7 Shaping the Female Consumer in Wilkie Collins’s No Name (1862); Chapter 8 Rachel Leverson and the London Beauty Salon; Chapter 9 Wilkie Collins’s Modern Snow White Arsenic Consumption and Ghastly Complexions in The Law and the Lady (1875); concl Conclusion;

’... the author's exploration of the female body in Victorian fairy tales is a fascinating entry into the study of women's bodies in Victorian literature... the notion of 'moulding' the female body is innovative in Victorian literary criticism and announces that the book will endeavour to circumvent a subject that has too often been explored in antagonistic or even simplistic terms... Talairach-Vielmas's book includes extensive and relevant footnotes and offers an intriguing approach to Victorian heroines through thorough textual analyses.’ Cercles ’... provides a unique viewpoint on the relationship between the aestheticised female body and consumer culture, offering a new reading of fairy tales and sensation novels, emphasizing the importance of these genres.’ Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ’Moulding the Female Body would be a welcome addition to any collection of scholarship on sensation fiction... Historians and literary scholars will find much to admire and to be inspired by here.’ H-Childhood

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France.

• Introduction Femininity through the Looking-Glass; Chapter 1 ‘That that is, is’ The Bondage of Stories in Jean Ingelow’s Mopsa The Fairy (1869); Chapter 2 MacDonald’s Fallen Angel in ‘The Light Princess’ (1864); Chapter 3 Drawing ‘Muchnesses’ in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Chapter 4 Chapter Four Taming the Female Body in Juliana Horatia Ewing’s ‘Amelia and the Dwarfs’ (1870) and Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses (1874); Chapter 5 Chapter Five A Journey through the Crystal Palace Rhoda Broughton’s Politics of Plate-Glass in Not Wisely But Too Well (1867); Chapter 6 Investigating Books of Beauties in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House (1853) and M.E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862); Chapter 7 Shaping the Female Consumer in Wilkie Collins’s No Name (1862); Chapter 8 Rachel Leverson and the London Beauty Salon; Chapter 9 Wilkie Collins’s Modern Snow White Arsenic Consumption and Ghastly Complexions in The Law and the Lady (1875); concl Conclusion;

’... the author's exploration of the female body in Victorian fairy tales is a fascinating entry into the study of women's bodies in Victorian literature... the notion of 'moulding' the female body is innovative in Victorian literary criticism and announces that the book will endeavour to circumvent a subject that has too often been explored in antagonistic or even simplistic terms... Talairach-Vielmas's book includes extensive and relevant footnotes and offers an intriguing approach to Victorian heroines through thorough textual analyses.’ Cercles ’... provides a unique viewpoint on the relationship between the aestheticised female body and consumer culture, offering a new reading of fairy tales and sensation novels, emphasizing the importance of these genres.’ Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ’Moulding the Female Body would be a welcome addition to any collection of scholarship on sensation fiction... Historians and literary scholars will find much to admire and to be inspired by here.’ H-Childhood

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France.

• Introduction Femininity through the Looking-Glass; Chapter 1 ‘That that is, is’ The Bondage of Stories in Jean Ingelow’s Mopsa The Fairy (1869); Chapter 2 MacDonald’s Fallen Angel in ‘The Light Princess’ (1864); Chapter 3 Drawing ‘Muchnesses’ in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Chapter 4 Chapter Four Taming the Female Body in Juliana Horatia Ewing’s ‘Amelia and the Dwarfs’ (1870) and Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses (1874); Chapter 5 Chapter Five A Journey through the Crystal Palace Rhoda Broughton’s Politics of Plate-Glass in Not Wisely But Too Well (1867); Chapter 6 Investigating Books of Beauties in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House (1853) and M.E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862); Chapter 7 Shaping the Female Consumer in Wilkie Collins’s No Name (1862); Chapter 8 Rachel Leverson and the London Beauty Salon; Chapter 9 Wilkie Collins’s Modern Snow White Arsenic Consumption and Ghastly Complexions in The Law and the Lady (1875); concl Conclusion;

’... the author's exploration of the female body in Victorian fairy tales is a fascinating entry into the study of women's bodies in Victorian literature... the notion of 'moulding' the female body is innovative in Victorian literary criticism and announces that the book will endeavour to circumvent a subject that has too often been explored in antagonistic or even simplistic terms... Talairach-Vielmas's book includes extensive and relevant footnotes and offers an intriguing approach to Victorian heroines through thorough textual analyses.’ Cercles ’... provides a unique viewpoint on the relationship between the aestheticised female body and consumer culture, offering a new reading of fairy tales and sensation novels, emphasizing the importance of these genres.’ Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies ’Moulding the Female Body would be a welcome addition to any collection of scholarship on sensation fiction... Historians and literary scholars will find much to admire and to be inspired by here.’ H-Childhood