Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Title | Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Talairach-Vielmas |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2015-12-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1137342404 |
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.
Science in Wonderland
Title | Science in Wonderland PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Keene |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199662657 |
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.
Victorian Fairy Tales
Title | Victorian Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Zipes |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2016-04-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 113674410X |
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century
Title | A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi J. Wood |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2021-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350287555 |
How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination in its own image. Examining how collectors, children's writers, poets, and artists seized the form to challenge convention and normative ideas, this book explores the fantastic imagination that belies the nineteenth century's materialist and pedestrian reputation. Looking at writers including E.T.A Hoffman, the Brothers Grim, S.T. Coleridge, Walter Scott, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rosetti, George MacDonald, and E. Nesbit, the volume shows how fairy tales touched every aspect of nineteenth century life and thought. It provides new insights into themes including: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power. With contributions from international scholars across disciplines, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history, and cultural studies. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature
Title | Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Nicola Bown |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2001-09-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521793155 |
This book examines the fairy in the work of many Victorian painters, novelists and poets.
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century
Title | A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi J. Wood |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2021-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350287563 |
How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination in its own image. Examining how collectors, children's writers, poets, and artists seized the form to challenge convention and normative ideas, this book explores the fantastic imagination that belies the nineteenth century's materialist and pedestrian reputation. Looking at writers including E.T.A Hoffman, the Brothers Grim, S.T. Coleridge, Walter Scott, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rosetti, George MacDonald, and E. Nesbit, the volume shows how fairy tales touched every aspect of nineteenth century life and thought. It provides new insights into themes including: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power. With contributions from international scholars across disciplines, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history, and cultural studies. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Victorian Fairy Tales
Title | Victorian Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Newton |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2015-03-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0191017353 |
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.