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Victorian Fairy Tales
Author | : Michael Stuart Newton |
Publsiher | : Oxford World's Classics |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780199601950 |
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The Victorian fascination with fairyland is reflected in the literature of the period, which includes some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central to the nineteenth-century canon such as Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, and Rudyard Kipling wrote fairy tales, and authors primarily famous for their work in the genre include George MacDonald, Juliana Ewing, Mary De Morgan, and Andrew Lang. This anthology brings together fourteen of the best stories, by these and other outstanding practitioners, to show the vibrancy and variety of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. The stories in this selection range from pure whimsy and romance to witty satire and darker, uncanny mystery. Paradox proves central to a form offered equally to children and adults. Fairyland is a dynamic and beguiling place, one that permits the most striking explorations of gender, suffering, love, family, and the travails of identity. Michael Newton's introduction and notes explore the literary marketplace in which these tales appeared, as well as the role they played in contemporary debates on scepticism and belief. The book also includes a selection of original illustrations by some of the masters of the field such as Richard Doyle, Arthur Hughes, and Walter Crane.
The Victorian Fairy Tale Book
Author | : Michael Patrick Hearn |
Publsiher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2002-12-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780375714559 |
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From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of living. Accompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old. Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Victorian Fairy Tales
Author | : Jack Zipes |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2016-04-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136744105 |
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First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Fairy Tales Natural History and Victorian Culture
Author | : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2014-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781137342409 |
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Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
Forbidden Journeys
Author | : Nina Auerbach,U. C. Knoepflmacher |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2014-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226230528 |
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This “darkly entertaining” story collection is “a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies" (United Press International). In the 1870s and 1880s, children’s literature saw some astonishingly bold and innovative writing by women authors. As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one that was startlingly subversive for its time. While writers such as Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie wrote nostalgic tales that pined for lost youth, their female counterparts had more serious—at times unsettling—concerns. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling anti-fantasies in Speaking Likenesses, the stories collected here are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they are extraordinary works of fiction, full of strange delights for readers of any age. "The editors’ intelligent and fascinating commentary reveals ways in which these stories defied the Victorian patriarchy."—Allyson F. McGill, Belles Lettres
Ventures Into Childland
Author | : U. C. Knoepflmacher |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226448169 |
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Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," Knoepflmacher probes deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and their own childhood selves, and between the lives of beloved Victorian authors and their "children's tales."
The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale
Author | : C. Sumpter |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2008-07-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230227644 |
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This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.
Science in Wonderland
Author | : Melanie Keene |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199662654 |
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Presents a new perspective on Victorian scientific discoveries and inventions; includes a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales and stories; looks at why fairies and their tales were chosen as an appropriate new form for capturing and presenting scientific and technological knowledge to young audiences; examines a range of scientific subjects, from palaeontology to entomology to astronomy.--Provided by publisher.