Fairy tales and folktales have long been mainstays of children's literature, celebrated as imaginatively liberating, psychologically therapeutic, and mirrors of foreign culture. Focusing on the fairy tale in nineteenth-century England, where many collections found their largest readership, National Dreams examines influential but critically neglected early experiments in the presentation of international tale traditions to English readers...
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England English Literature Europe Fairy Tales Folklore Folklore & Mythology History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Mythology & Folk Tales Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks