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 rangi...
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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.; Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures-fairies and swan maidens, ; goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies-simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize; the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion. |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index. |
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spelling | Silver, Carole G. Strange and secret peoples : fairies and Victorian consciousness / Carole G. Silver. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index. Print version record. 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.; Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures-fairies and swan maidens, ; goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies-simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize; the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion. Fairies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046901 Folklore Great Britain. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001571 Literature and folklore Great Britain. British literature 19th century History and criticism. Great Britain Social conditions 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056943 Fées. Folklore Grande-Bretagne. Littérature et folklore Grande-Bretagne. Littérature britannique 19e siècle Histoire et critique. Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales 19e siècle. SOCIAL SCIENCE Folklore & Mythology. bisacsh British literature fast Fairies fast Folklore fast Literature and folklore fast Social conditions fast Great Britain fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP Märchen gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4036910-9 Volksglaube gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4063834-0 Großbritannien gnd Feeën. gtt Elfen. gtt Kabouters (folklore) gtt Sprookjesfiguren. gtt Victoriaanse tijd. gtt 1800-1899 fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast has work: Strange and secret peoples (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PD3rjPWjgWXbpBtfRvHfRx8 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Silver, Carole G. Strange and secret peoples. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (DLC) 98010318 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=144042 Volltext |
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title_full | Strange and secret peoples : fairies and Victorian consciousness / Carole G. Silver. |
title_fullStr | Strange and secret peoples : fairies and Victorian consciousness / Carole G. Silver. |
title_full_unstemmed | Strange and secret peoples : fairies and Victorian consciousness / Carole G. Silver. |
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topic | Fairies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046901 Folklore Great Britain. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001571 Literature and folklore Great Britain. British literature 19th century History and criticism. Fées. Folklore Grande-Bretagne. Littérature et folklore Grande-Bretagne. Littérature britannique 19e siècle Histoire et critique. SOCIAL SCIENCE Folklore & Mythology. bisacsh British literature fast Fairies fast Folklore fast Literature and folklore fast Social conditions fast Märchen gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4036910-9 Volksglaube gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4063834-0 Feeën. gtt Elfen. gtt Kabouters (folklore) gtt Sprookjesfiguren. gtt Victoriaanse tijd. gtt |
topic_facet | Fairies. Folklore Great Britain. Literature and folklore Great Britain. British literature 19th century History and criticism. Great Britain Social conditions 19th century. Fées. Folklore Grande-Bretagne. Littérature et folklore Grande-Bretagne. Littérature britannique 19e siècle Histoire et critique. Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales 19e siècle. SOCIAL SCIENCE Folklore & Mythology. British literature Fairies Folklore Literature and folklore Social conditions Great Britain Märchen Volksglaube Großbritannien Feeën. Elfen. Kabouters (folklore) Sprookjesfiguren. Victoriaanse tijd. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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