Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature

Informationen zum Autor Nicola Bown is a lecturer in the Department of English at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published articles in Textual Practice, Women: A Cultural Review, and the Journal of Victorian Culture, and worked for the Royal Academy on their Victorian Fairy Paintings show. This is her first book. Zusammenfassung Nicola Bown's study reminds us that for the Victorians the fairy symbolized disenchantment with the irresistible forces of progress and modernity. As these forces stripped their world of its wonder! Victorians consoled themselves by dreaming of a place suffused with the enchantment that was disappearing from their own lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: small enchantments; 1. Fancies of fairies and spirits and nonsense; 2. Queen Mab among the steam engines; 3. A few fragments of fairyology, shewing its connection with natural history; 4. A broken heart and a pocket full of ashes; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nicola Bown, Nicola (Birkbeck College Bown, Bown Nicola
• Mitarbeit: Gillian Beer (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521025508
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02550-8
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; The arts: general issues, ART / General, The arts: general topics