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- Title
Is Medusa laughing again?: Poisoning, blood‐letting and murder in Caroline Lee Hentz's Fatal Cosmetic and Rebekah Hyneman's The Fatal Cosmetic.
- Abstract
Caroline Lee Hentz's novella Fatal Cosmetic (1839) and Rebekah Hyneman's serial novella The Fatal Cosmetic (1853) are harbingers of American sensation fiction, though for more than a century and a half they were doomed to oblivion. Although different in style and characterization, both novelists aimed at propagating social and political agendas. This paper examines the development of this genre's key elements from earlier conformist ones to their later comprehensive materialization. Moreover, it examines the possible mythological and historical sources Hyneman's novella draws on.
- Subjects
AMERICAN fiction; POISONING; MURDER; HISTORICAL source material; LAUGHTER; NOVELLAS (Literary form); FICTION
- Publication
Orbis Litterarum, 2022, Vol 77, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0105-7510
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/oli.12293