Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century

Introduction, Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier; 1. Stratford-upon-Avon's 'Great Little Lady', Nick Leigh Birch; 2. From 'Girl Alone' to 'Genius': Corelli's Transforming Epistolary Rhetoric, Colleen Morrissey; 3. Marie Corelli, the Public Sphere and Public Opinion, Julia Kuehn; 4. 'The Muses Are Women; So Are the Fates': Corelli's Literary Masquerade(s), Sarah E. Maier; 5. The Devil & Miss Corelli: Re-gendering the Diabolical and the Redemptive in 'The Sorrows of Satan', Julianne Smith; 6. Muscular Christianity Unbound: Masculinity in 'Ardath', Gareth Hadyk-DeLodder; 7. Over Her (Un)dead Body: Gender Politics, Mediumship and Feminist Spiritual Theology in the Works of Marie Corelli, Carol Margaret Davison; 8. 'The Story of a Dead Self': The Theosophical Novels of Marie Corelli, Brenda Ayres; 9. 'Something Vile in the Composition': Marie Corelli's 'Ziska', Decadent Portraiture and the New Woman, Angie Blumberg; Index.