The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale write by C. Sumpter. This book was released on 2008-07-24. The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.
Victorian Fairy Tales
Victorian Fairy Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Fairy Tales write by Michael Stuart Newton. This book was released on 2015. Victorian Fairy Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre, to show the vibrancy of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. From whimsy to satire, the stories reveal the preoccupations of the age and celebrate the value of the imagination.
Forbidden Journeys
Forbidden Journeys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forbidden Journeys write by Nina Auerbach. This book was released on 2014-12-10. Forbidden Journeys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “darkly entertaining” story collection is “a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies" (United Press International). In the 1870s and 1880s, children’s literature saw some astonishingly bold and innovative writing by women authors. As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one that was startlingly subversive for its time. While writers such as Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie wrote nostalgic tales that pined for lost youth, their female counterparts had more serious—at times unsettling—concerns. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling anti-fantasies in Speaking Likenesses, the stories collected here are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they are extraordinary works of fiction, full of strange delights for readers of any age. "The editors’ intelligent and fascinating commentary reveals ways in which these stories defied the Victorian patriarchy."—Allyson F. McGill, Belles Lettres
Science in Wonderland
Science in Wonderland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science in Wonderland write by Melanie Keene. This book was released on 2015. Science in Wonderland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a new perspective on Victorian scientific discoveries and inventions; includes a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales and stories; looks at why fairies and their tales were chosen as an appropriate new form for capturing and presenting scientific and technological knowledge to young audiences; examines a range of scientific subjects, from palaeontology to entomology to astronomy.--Provided by publisher.
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture write by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas. This book was released on 2015-12-04. Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
