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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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2005, 2003.
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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.