Faires 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. Klappentext This book examines the fairy in the work of many Victorian painters, novelists and poets. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Bown, Nicholas Brown
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2001
• EAN: 9780521793155
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79315-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies