A 'base and spurious thing': Reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857)
(2011)
Journal Article
Allan, J. (2011). A 'base and spurious thing': Reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857). Critical Survey, 23(1), 8-24. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2011.230102
Concentrating on Ellen Wood’s Parkwater, a little-known New Monthly Magazine serial, this article attempts to complicate the long-standing construction of Wood as a ‘quiet sensationalist’. It argues that Wood’s serial was self-consciously appealin... Read More about A 'base and spurious thing': Reading and deceptive femininity in Ellen Wood's Parkwater (1857).