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- Title
Marie Corelli and Fin-de-Siècle Francophobia: The Absinthe Trail of French Art.
- Authors
MacLeod, Kirsten
- Abstract
Focuses on the prevailing Francophobic attitudes of fin-de-siéle Britain manifested in the works of author Marie Corelli regarding the French art and literature. Cultural contexts that expressed Francophobic attitudes; Artistic trends attacked by Corelli in her book "Free Opinions Freely Expressed"; Connections between absinthe and the French art; Signs of degeneration that Corelli and other Britons saw in the French art and literature.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; RACISM in literature; CORELLI, Marie, 1855-1924; FRENCH literature; FRENCH art; FREE Opinions Freely Expressed (Book); ABSINTHE in art; SOCIAL degeneration in literature
- Publication
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 2000, Vol 43, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
0013-8339
- Publication type
Literary Criticism