The Victorian Supernatural

The Victorian Supernatural
Author: Nicola Bown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2004-02-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521810159

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Sylvie and Bruno

Sylvie and Bruno
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1889
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.

Fairies to Paint Or Color

Fairies to Paint Or Color
Author: Darcy May
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2008-06-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486465446

Fairies never fail to engage the imagination, and this coloring book promises to please everyone! Twenty-three magical scenes feature fairies surrounded by flowers, butterflies, and friendly woodland creatures.

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1137342404

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.

Fairy Art

Fairy Art
Author: Iain Zaczek
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Fairies in art
ISBN: 9781844513277

The Victorian era saw a flowering of fairy paintings as British artists in particular rejected the classical and ancient Greek subjects in favour of a deeper, closer source of inspiration in the countryside, the hedgerows and the meadows of the nineteenth-century British landscape. This book celebrates the fine art of Fairy painting.

A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century

A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Naomi J. Wood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350287555

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination in its own image. Examining how collectors, children's writers, poets, and artists seized the form to challenge convention and normative ideas, this book explores the fantastic imagination that belies the nineteenth century's materialist and pedestrian reputation. Looking at writers including E.T.A Hoffman, the Brothers Grim, S.T. Coleridge, Walter Scott, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rosetti, George MacDonald, and E. Nesbit, the volume shows how fairy tales touched every aspect of nineteenth century life and thought. It provides new insights into themes including: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power. With contributions from international scholars across disciplines, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history, and cultural studies. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Color Your Own Victorian Fairy Paintings

Color Your Own Victorian Fairy Paintings
Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2009-04-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486470512

Welcome to an enchanting world populated by the little people — fairies, elves, and sprites — envisioned by such Victorian-era artists as Arthur Rackham, Richard Doyle, Edward Robert Hughes, Warwick Goble, and other masters of the genre. Set amid nature's loveliest scenes, the 30 fantasy illustrations will captivate any colorist.

Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods

Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods
Author: Kristine Moruzi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2023-09-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031383516

Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth century through the application of fresh theoretical approaches and attention to aspects of literary childhoods that have only recently begun to be illuminated. This scope enables examination of the child in canonical nineteenth-century novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and Thomas Hardy alongside well-known fiction intended for young readers by George MacDonald, Christabel Coleridge, and Kate Greenaway. The century was also distinctive for the rise of the children’s magazine, and this book broadens the definition of literary cultures to include magazines produced both by, and for, young people. The volume examines how the child and family are conceptualised, how children are positioned as readers in genres including the domestic novel, school story, Robinsonade, and fantasy fiction, how literary childhoods are written and politicised, and how childhood intersects with perceptions of animals and the natural environment. The range of chapters in this collection and the texts they consider demonstrates the variability and fluidity of literary cultures and nineteenth-century childhoods.

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Author: Jason Marc Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317134656

Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.