1. 'Two lovers to decide their rival claim to the possession of my person' : Rhoda Broughton's Cometh up as a flower -- 2. The 'aesthetics of love' in George Meredith's The egoist -- 3. 'A lovely woman whom he had bought' : the market for aesthetic commodities in Ouida's Moths -- 4. 'I love beauty : and I study it wherever I find it, dead or living' : Marie Corelli's Wormwood -- 5. 'Love for love's sake' : George du Maurier's Trilby
Notes
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Bibliography
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