Strange and Secret Peoples Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

Name: Strange and Secret Peoples Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
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ISBN: 9780195144116

ISBN-10: 0195144112

ISBN-13: 9780195144116

Edition: 2000

Authors: Carole G. Silver

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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 who have infiltrated both theliterary 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…

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/12/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.90" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English