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Spellbound : the fairy tale and the Victorians /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hillard, Molly Clark, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Fairy tales > Great Britain > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Nostalgia, literacy, and the fairy tale
  • The novelist and the collector
  • Pickwick papers and the end of miscellany
  • The natural history of Thornfield
  • Antiquity, novelty, and the key to all mythologies
  • Sleeping Beauty and Victorian temporality
  • Keats on sleep and beauty
  • "A perfect form in perfect rest" : Tennyson's "Day dream"
  • Burne-Jones and the poetic frame
  • Fairy footsteps and goblin economies
  • The Great Exhibition : Fairy Palace, Goblin Market
  • Rossetti's homeopathy
  • Little Red Riding Hood arrives in London
  • Little Red Riding Hood's progress
  • Little Red Riding Hood and other waterside characters
  • Conclusion: Andrew Lang, collaboration, and fairy tale methodologies.