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  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE Nurse's Stories: Fairy Tales as Cultural Voices; WHAT DID DICKENS READ?; DEFINING FAIRY TALES; THE FAIRY TALE AS A PRODUCT OF CULTURE AND NATIONHOOD; In Europe; In England; GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND "CINDERELLA"; CHAPTER TWO Frauds on the Fairies: Defending Fancy; THE CHILD AND EDUCATION; HARD TIMES; CHAPTER THREE Monsters and Fairies, Homes and Wildernesses; HOPE AND HUMANITY; STORYTELLING IN DICKENS; FAIRY-TALE PLOTS; FAIRY-TALE CHARACTERS: MONSTERS AND FAIRIES.
  • FAIRY-TALE SETTINGS: HOMES AND WILDERNESSESFLORENCE DOMBEY AS SLEEPING BEAUTY; CHAPTER FOUR Dickens's Christmas "Fairy Tales of Home"; HOME OR PRISON? DYSTOPIAN SHADOWS ON THE HEARTH; CHAPTER FIVE The Fairy Tale in Dickens's Periodicals; HOUSEHOLD WORDS AND ALL THE YEAR ROUND; DEFENSES OF THE FAIRY TALE IN HOUSEHOLD WORDS; EDUCATION AND THE FAIRY TALE IN HOUSEHOLD WORDS; THE HOLIDAY ROMANCE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND; EDUCATION FOR THE POOR CHILD; PROTESTING POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IRRESPONSIBILITY; THE INFLUENCE OF DICKENS'S PERIODICALS ON THE FAIRY TALE.
  • APPENDIX A Survey of Criticism on Dickens and the Fairy TaleAPPENDIX B Perrault'sMorals to "Cinderella"; Notes; NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE; NOTES TO CHAPTER TWO; NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE; NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR; NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE; NOTES TO APPENDIX A; Works Consulted; SubjectIndex.