Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
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Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195121996
ISBN13:9780195121995
Release Date:January 1999
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.38 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"
Related Subjects
Criticism & Theory England English Literature Europe Fairy Tales Folklore Folklore & Mythology History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Mythology Mythology & Folk Tales Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks VictorianCustomer Reviews
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