Social Dreaming Dickens and the Fairy Tale

Informationen zum Autor William E. Cain, Elaine Ostry Klappentext Dickens was known for his imagination and fiery social protest. This book shows how Dickens used the fairy tale to express his political and social views! and helped establish it as an important literary genre for the Victorian public. Zusammenfassung Dickens was known for his imagination and fiery social protest. This book shows how Dickens used the fairy tale to express his political and social views, and helped establish it as an important literary genre for the Victorian public. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Nurse’s Stories: Fairy Tales as Cultural Voices; Chapter 2 Frauds on the Fairies: Defending Fancy; Chapter 3 Monsters and Fairies, Homes and Wildernesses; Chapter 4 Dickens’s Christmas “Fairy Tales of Home”; Chapter 5 The Fairy Tale in Dickens’s Periodicals;

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Ostry, Ostry Elaine
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 22.11.2002
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780415940184
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94018-4
• Dimensions (packing): 16 x 23.5 x 1.8 cm
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors; Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Victorian literature analysis, cultural imagination studies, social commentary in fiction, narrative ideology research, Dickens fairy tale sociohistorical critique, fairy tale criticism, periodical literature Victorian era