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National Dreams : The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England /

Fairy tales and folktales have long been mainstays of children's literature, celebrated as imaginatively liberating, psychologically therapeutic, and mirrors of foreign culture. Focusing on the fairy tale in nineteenth-century England, where many collections found their largest readership, Nati...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schacker, Jennifer
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, 2003.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The household tales in the household library: Edgar Taylor's German popular stories
  • Everything is in the telling: T. Crofton Croker's fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland
  • Otherness and otherworldliness: Edward W. Lane's Arabian nights
  • The dreams of the younger brother: George Webbe Dasent's popular tales from the Norse
  • Conclusion: dreams.