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Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature

Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 33

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521793157
ISBN13: 9780521793155
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 27 2001
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
This study of the Victorian fascination with fairies reveals their significance in Victorian art and literature. Nicola Bown explores what the fairy meant to the Victorians, and why they were so captivated by a figure which nowadays seems trivial and childish. She argues that fairies were a fantasy that allowed the Victorians to escape from their worries about science, technology and the effects of progress. The fairyland they dreamed about was a reconfiguration of their own world, and the fairies who inhabited it were like themselves.

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