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A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novel Marie Corelli’s A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women’s writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian ‘bestseller’. Key Features Contains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendicesProvides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli’s supernatural romanceEngages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author

Marie Corelli was a best-selling English author of more than 20 romantic melodramatic novels.

Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His books include The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (co-edited with Suzanne Hobson, 2023), British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945–1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, 2021), The Occult Imagination in Britain 1875–1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, 2018), Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism (2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel (2010). He has recently published a critical edition of George Borrow’s autobiographical novel Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest with Edinburgh University Press (2023).