Victorian Fairy Tales

Author: Michael Stuart Newton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019960195X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497

Book Description
This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre, to show the vibrancy of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. From whimsy to satire, the stories reveal the preoccupations of the age and celebrate the value of the imagination.

The Victorian Fairy Tale Book

Author: Michael Patrick Hearn
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307814157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
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

Forbidden Journeys

Author: Nina Auerbach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226032043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
IntroductionPart One: Refashioning Fairy TalesThe Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Anne Thackeray RitchieBeauty and the Beast, Anne Thackeray RitchieThe Brown Bull of Norrowa, Maria Louisa MolesworthAmelia and the Dwarfs, Juliana Horathia EwingPart Two: SubversionsNick, Christina RossettiChristmas Crackers, Julian Horathia EwingBehind the White Brick, Frances Hodgson BurnettMelisande, or, Long and Short Division, E. NesbitFortunatus Rex amp Co., E. NesbitPart Three: A Fantasy NovelMopsa the Fairy, Jean IngelowPart Four: A Trio of AntifantasiesSpeaking Likenesses, Christina RossettiBiographical SketchesFurther Readings Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale

Author: C. Sumpter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230227643
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
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.

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture

Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137342404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
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.

Victorian Fairy Tales

Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113674410X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Science in Wonderland

Author: Melanie Keene
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199662657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
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.

Ventures Into Childland

Author: U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226448169
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470

Book Description
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 Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

Author: Alison Lurie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192803832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
This marvelous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. Featuring tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child that exists in every adult.

Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels

Author: Dr Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409489825
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.