Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture / edited by Jane Jordan and Andrew King.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Rereading Ouida; 1 Ouida 1839-1908: Quantities, Aesthetics, Politics; 2 Ouida and the Canon: Recovering, Reconsidering, and Revisioning the Popular; 3 'Between Men': Romantic Friendship in Ouida's Early Novels; PART II Rewriting Ouida; 4 'A hack as harmful as he is brainless and, one, moreover, who stabs where he steals.'; 5 Ouida, Vernon Lee and the Aesthetic Novel; 6 Defending Female Genius: The Unlikely Cultural Alignment of Marie Corelli and Ouida; III Ouida and Politics7 Ouida and the Russians: Aristocratic Francophilia to Tolstoyism8 Opinionated Ouida; 9 Politicizing the Aesthetic: Ouida's Transnational Critique of Modernity; Appendix 1 Ouida: Novels and Other Volume Form Publications; Appendix 2 Ouida: Journalism (A Select Bibliography); Appendix 3: British Theatrical Adaptations of Ouida's Novels; Bibliography; Index

Ouida, ' the pseudonym of Louise Ramé (1839-1908), was one of the most productive and widely read Victorian writers. This volume offers a radically new view of Ouida, engaging with perceptions of popular and women writers, conceptions of 'high' and 'low' literatures, theatrical adaptation of fiction, and issues related to imperialism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Its usefulness to scholars is enhanced by bibliographies of Ouida's published works and stage adaptations of her fiction.