INDEX

absinthe Seedecadence: absinthe

aesthetic commodity, 2, 34, 39, 48, 678, 72,
86, 93, 136
commodification of female beauty, 2,
1012, 40, 66, 767, 91
commodification of women, 23, 7, 10,
20, 22, 289, 31, 33, 389, 44, 523,
58, 623, 658, 92, 95, 139, 150 See
alsomarriage: market
aestheticism, 27, 12, 20, 238, 53, 55, 57,
59, 68, 757, 923, 99, 101, 1034,
110, 112, 1267, 130, 1334, 140, 147,
14950, 1523, 154 See alsoMeredith,
George: The Egoist (1879): aesthete
aesthete, 10, 24, 26, 28, 33, 967, 99, 102,
105, 11112, 125, 133
aesthetic movement, 24, 7, 28, 43, 52, 55,
58, 62, 67, 77, 93, 107, 133, 140, 146,
149, 153
aesthetic novel, 77, 99, 150
domestic interiors, 96, 114
high culture / popular culture divide, 18
art and popularity, 25
interior design, 3
women, 23, 67, 912, 14, 1920, 22,
26, 45, 53, 56, 623, 712, 91, 93,
967, 101, 107, 109, 11113, 116,
121, 1502
aestheticization, 33, 40, 48, 51, 62, 64, 69,
1045, 111, 125, 138, 151, 154
angel in the house, 9, 835, 92, 121
appetite, 19, 46, 51, 66, 901
art, 24, 6, 43, 57, 60, 87, 103 See alsoPreRaphaelitism; See also Victorian art
world
Botticelli, Sandro, 114, 1334

Degas, Edgar, 103

Manet, douard, 103
painting, 46, 8, 23, 49, 55, 645, 103,
106, 11012, 115, 118, 12832,
13940
portrait, 7, 44, 57, 71, 87
Raphael, 11314
Walker, Frederick, 1301
art for arts sake, 75, 107 See alsoaestheticism,
Arts and Crafts design movement SeeMorris,
William

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Baudelaire, Charles, 94
Bodichon, Barbara, 13
bohemian, 4, 103, 125, 1278, 1347 See
alsodu Maurier, George: Trilby (1894)
Book Beautiful, 5 See alsoMorris, William
book publishing, 5, 17
book manufacture, 21
circulating library, 16, 24
fiction publishing, 5
relationship between author and publisher, 17
Bourdieu, Pierre, 9, 37, 49, 87
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 203, 54
Lady Audleys Secret (1862), 223, 44
Broughton, Rhoda, 17, 20, 225, 30, 401
Cometh up as a Flower (1867), 14, 23,
2830, 334, 389, 467, 51, 1502
anorexia, 501
cultural capital, 33, 367, 49
female desire, 345
female first-person narration, 29, 48
floral imagery, 42
floriography (language of flowers), 403
language of ownership, 38
legal prostitution, 29, 38

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Pre-Raphaelitism, 30, 44, 49

sexual deviance, 105
red hair, 44, 46, 49
unreliable narrator, 109, 116
romance plot, 32
literary career, 27
romantic heroine, 29
Crane, Walter, 7, 103
sensation fiction , 22, 29, 31, 51
cultural capital, 811, 48, 66, 68, 72, 84, 87
Not Wisely but Too Well (1867), 23, 30, 32
Darwinism, 24, 40, 53, 66, 151 See also du
popular culture, 30
Maurier, George: Trilby (1894): Darpopular writer, 30
winism
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 1
Darwin, Charles, 75
Burne-Jones, Edward, 5, 88, 132
decadence, 2, 26, 28, 58, 93, 95, 101, 108,
111, 127, 140, 151, 154 See alsoCorelli,
commodity, 7, 9, 78, 84, 86 See also Marx,
Marie: Wormwood: A Drama of Paris
Karl; See alsoaesthetic commodity
(1890): decadence
commodification, 2, 710, 29, 48, 84, 89,
absinthe, 1015, 1089, 112, 121
118, 1256, 151
decadent culture, 104
commodity culture, 8, 55, 60, 62, 95, 143 See
decadent genre, 103
alsocommodity,
decadent movement, 28, 151
complementarity of the sexes, 115
degeneration, 103, 147, 150
Corelli, Marie, 17, 20, 22, 278, 102, 106,
du Maurier, George, 17, 22, 130, 13940,
119, 121 See alsoVyver, Bertha
150 See alsoField, Michael
Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self (1889),
artist, 126
123
aversion to aesthetic culture, 133
cultural icon, 101
illustrator, 28, 1267, 131
feminism was divided, 119
Trilby (1894), 14, 28, 55, 125, 1502
The Modern Marriage Market (1897),
artistic reproduction, 142
117
artists model, 132, 141
ideal marriage, 11819
aural, 126, 144
market conditions of marriage arrangebest-selling novel , 125
ments, 118
Darwinism, 130, 147
slavery, 11819
Englishmen, 128
womens culpability, 11920
Englishness, 128, 130, 137
The Sorrows of Satan (1895), 27, 114, 117,
fragmentation, 141, 143
119
high culture / popular culture divide,
buying love on the Victorian marriage
146
market, 120
illness, 138, 145
female desire, 120
La Svengali, 132, 1389, 143, 145
Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (1890), 14,
metamorphosis, 1368
26, 101, 1502
New Woman, 126, 1356, 146
addict, 102, 104
nude, 129, 1401
addiction, 1078 See also decadence:
Pre-Raphaelitism, 1302
absinthe
professional beauty, 139
cross-writing as a male persona, 106
singing, 125, 1446
decadence, 1013, 106
Svengali, 1323
erotic triangle, 11617
thinness, 138
female purity, 109
Trilbys foot, 1413
male beauty, 11415
voice, 1456
religion, 109, 11314, 120
parody,
14, 28, 126, 131, 142, 1467
Renaissance paintings, 113

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economy SeeVictorian economy
Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss (1860), 47
Ellis, Sarah
The Women of England, their Social
Duties, and Domestic Habits (1839),
14
eroticism, 345, 66, 86, 105, 11517, 141
See also Corelli, Marie: Wormwood: A
Drama of Paris (1890): erotic triangle
eugenics, 74
fallen woman, 32, 125, 131, 136
fashion, 3, 10, 39, 57, 5960, 67, 84, 88,
923, 99, 102, 152
ornamentation, 10, 89
female beauty, 2, 47, 10, 12, 14, 23, 27, 29,
38, 41, 435, 52, 55, 63, 77, 801, 89,
945, 1068, 111, 113, 118, 139, 151,
154 See alsoaesthetic commodity: commodification of female beauty
clich, 12, 35, 467, 87, 142, 151
death, 401, 4952, 98, 1046, 125,
1389, 146, 1512
feminine beauty, 11, 39, 43, 456, 79,
878, 90, 93, 106, 136, 149, 152
fragmentation 46, 95, 107, 152 See alsodu
Maurier, George: Trilby (1894): fragmentation
marble, 47, 879, 92, 105, 110, 1212,
142, 146 See also female beauty:
women as art objects,
natural beauty, 42, 95, 137, 151, 154
physiognomy, 11
women as art objects, 47, 57, 635, 878,
112
feminist thinking SeeMeredith, George: The
Egoist (1879): Victorian proto-feminist
thinking
fetishism, 82, 91, 945
fetishization, 82, 84, 945, 141, 1512
Field, Michael, 139, 143
fin de sicle, 2, 28, 127, 134, 153 See alsodecadence
Forster, E. M.
A Room with a View (1908), 1535
France, 26, 50, 7981, 834, 97, 1024, 108,
122, 1279, 134, 136, 141, 150

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Francophobia, 104, 134, 150

Paris, 28, 80, 83, 889, 122, 1269, 134
6, 142, 150, 152
Freud, Sigmund, 82, 141 See alsofetishism
Great Exhibition, 8 See alsoRuskin, John
Great Exhibition of the Works of All
Nations (1851), 8
Hunt, William Holman, 4, 7, 49, 131
Huysmans, Joris-Karl , 104
infantilization See Victorian womanhood:
childishness
James, Henry, 3, 16, 127
Keats, John, 102, 149
literary canon, 16
canonical, 1516
literary value, 17
London, 7, 26, 56, 77, 83, 98, 118, 128, 130,
134, 136, 149, 152

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MacKay, Charles, 27
marriage, 12, 6, 10, 1316, 20, 22, 26, 31,
33, 378, 48, 50, 52, 545, 57, 61,
636, 69, 724, 83, 856, 8992, 967,
114, 11819, 121, 123, 136, 1502
absorption, 10, 1315, 90
accomplishments, 1, 11, 45
adultery, 13, 212, 31, 83, 92
arrangements, 14, 78, 114, 120
coverture, 13, 15
debate over marriage and divorce laws, 22
divorce, 13
London season, 1, 118
marital rape, 86
market, 1, 3, 912, 20, 29, 34, 379, 53,
613, 667, 71, 734, 857, 95, 97,
101, 11720, 122 See also Ouida
(Marie Louise Ram): Moths (1880):
critique of the Victorian marriage
market
harem imagery, 61
marriageability, 1, 37, 65, 67
narrative, 54
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unmarried women, 1, 14
Marx, Karl, 7, 17, 91
Meredith, George, 17, 245, 27, 534, 612,
67, 150, 154
Diana of the Crossways (1885), 25, 54, 63
The Egoist (1879), 14, 25, 40, 536, 69,
1501
aesthete, 568, 64
blue-and-white china, 5863, 68
commodity market, 55, 59, 63
Darwinism, 56, 61, 726
female purity, 66, 74, 76
new models of masculinity, 56
parody, 58
Pre-Raphaelitism, 55, 678
Victorian mass culture, 5960
Victorian proto-feminist thinking, 53,
63
womens health with physical beauty, 74
lack of popular recognition, 25
popular status, 54
publishers reader, 245
metonym, 9, 46, 88, 923, 143
Millais, John Everett, 4, 7, 49, 131
Ophelia, 49, 105
Millais, John Guile, 131
modernism, 28, 127, 1534
Morris, Jane, 132
Morris, William, 56, 152
Mudie, Charles Edward, 16, 79 See alsobook
publishing: circulating library

objectification, 2, 10, 12, 91, 94, 106, 1256,

140, 143, 151 See also aesthetic commodity
object, 1, 67, 10, 28, 33, 48, 63, 75, 856,
88, 90, 945, 101, 1057, 125, 136,
139, 1413, 146, 151
Ouida (Marie Louise Ram), 17, 20, 22,
256, 778, 84, 989
celebrity, 26
cultural legacy, 26
eccentric lifestyle, 26
Moths (1880), 14, 40, 778, 93, 95, 1502
Bluebeard, 97
child-like, 87, 89
commodity fetishism, 912
commodity fetishization, 96
commodity relations, 77
continental setting, 79, 83, 96
country and the city, 80, 834, 129
critique of the Victorian marriage market, 77
female aesthete, 77, 99
nature, 801, 84, 93
purity, 834, 87, 91, 94
virgin, 82, 87, 901
Princess Napraxine (1884), 93, 969

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nature, 2, 45, 30, 40, 423, 467, 50, 53,
58, 678, 73, 756, 82, 98, 105, 107,
129, 141, 151, 154 See alsoBroughton,
Rhoda: Cometh up as a Flower (1867):
floriography (language of flowers)
and artifice, 76, 935, 152
country, 567, 68, 129, 130 See alsoOuida
(Marie Louise Ram): Moths (1880):
country and the city
New Woman, 135 See also du Maurier,
George: Trilby (1894): New Woman
Nordau, Max, 103
Norton, Caroline, 13

parody, 150
satire, 28, 58, 71, 131, 150
Pater, Walter, 23, 75, 114, 154
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
(1873), 34
nudity, 140
Patmore, Coventry Seeangel in the house
poetry, 56, 27, 56, 103, 139, 1512
popular culture, 8, 11, 17, 267, 44, 77, 99,
141, 146 See also Broughton, Rhoda:
popular culture
popular fiction SeeVictorian popular fiction
Pre-Raphaelitism, 2, 46, 224, 289, 436,
49, 523, 55, 68, 88, 1056, 10910,
127, 131
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 4, 130
prostitute, 389, 86, 1356, 144
Pygmalion, 146 See alsofemale beauty: marble, 47, 142

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romance fiction, 35, 79 See also Broughton,

capitalist economic system, 8, 10, 55, 59
Rhoda: Cometh up as a Flower (1867):
consumerism
romance plot
consumer, 5, 8, 18, 63
romance novel, 323, 123
consumption, 3, 8, 10, 48, 56, 59, 83, 86,
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 46, 41, 55, 59, 88,
901, 95, 152
11011, 131, 132 See alsoPre-Raphaelmass production, 5, 8, 21, 32, 5960,
itism
152
ekphrasis, 6, 23
Victorian popular fiction See sensation ficRossetti, William Michael, 4, 55
tion
Ruskin, John, 4, 8, 41, 43, 59, 154
light fiction, 19
Modern Painters (1843), 4, 43
minor novelists, 19
Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers
noncanonical, 16
(1868), 40
popular literary category, 23
Of Queens Gardens (1865), 70
popular literary market, 2, 11, 22
popular literature, 2, 10, 27, 54
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 117
popular novelists, 1820, 24
sensation fiction, 203, 31, 126 See
popular novels, 17, 26
alsoBroughton, Rhoda: Cometh up as a
three-volume novel, 16, 30
Flower (1867): sensation fiction
Victorian womanhood, 1113, 84, 136
sensation genre, 20, 22, 28, 32
childishness, 107, 151
sensation novel, 202, 32, 150
female body, 12, 30, 44, 467, 51, 95, 104,
sexuality, 10, 41, 45, 51, 92, 125
144, 1512
sexual desire, 6, 10, 50, 151
female purity, 62, 66, 76, 97, 107, 111
Showalter, Elaine, 18, 32, 1345
12, 120, 138, 151
womens literature, 18
ideal femininity, 11, 109
Siddal, Elizabeth, 29, 445, 49, 51, 132
sexual appeal, 10
social capital, 9, 33, 37, 84
virginity, 1, 66, 75, 106, 140, 151
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 55, 102, 120
virtue, 1
Symons, Arthur, 27, 103
Vyver, Bertha, 27, 119

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taste, 811, 1415, 30, 367, 456, 49, 54, Whistler, James McNeill, 7, 59, 126 See
5860, 63, 84, 87, 134, 155
alsodu Maurier, George,
Tennyson, Lord Alfred, 6970
Wilde, Oscar, 3, 59, 75, 99, 133, 1534
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), 23, 57,
Victorian art world, 4, 99, 126
147
Royal Academy, 4, 7, 105, 129
womanhood SeeVictorian womanhood
Victorian economy
capitalism, 7, 17, 84
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