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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schacker, Jennifer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular literature.
Fairy tales in literature.
Fantasy fiction, English.
Fairy tales > Adaptations.
Fairy tales.
English fiction.
Children's stories, English.
Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Contes de fees dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Paralitterature > Angleterre > Histoire et critique.
Histoires pour enfants anglaises > Histoire et critique.
Contes de fees > Angleterre > Histoire et critique.
Fairy tales > Adaptations > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Books and reading > England > History > 19th century.
Popular literature > England > History and criticism.
Children's stories, English > History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, English > History and criticism.
Fairy tales > England > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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