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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2005, 2003.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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, National Dreams examines influential but critically neglected early experiments in the presentation of international tale traditions to English readers. Jennifer Schacker looks at such wondrous story collections as Grimms' fairy tales and The Arabian Nights in order to trace the larger stories of cross-cultural encounter in which these books were originally embedded. Examining aspects of publishing history alongside her critical readings of tale collections' introductions, annotations, story texts, and illustrations, Schacker's National Dreams reveals the surprising ways fairy tales shaped and were shaped by their readers. |
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| Item Description: | First paperback edition. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780812204162 |