Strange and secret peoples: fairies and Victorian consciousness

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Silver, Carole G. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 1999
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Zusammenfassung:"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 who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XIII, 272 S. Ill.
ISBN:0195121996