Victorian fairy tales
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Oxford University Press,
Oxford, United Kingdom :
2018.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon..." The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central to the nineteenth-century canon such as W. M. Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, and Rudyard Kipling wrote fairy tales, and authors primarily famous for their work in the genre include George MacDonald, Juliana Ewing, Mary De Morgan, and Andrew Lang. This anthology brings together fourteen of the best stories, by these and other outstanding practitioners, to show the vibrancy and variety of the form and its abilities to reflect our deepest concerns. In tales of whimsy and romance, witty satire and uncanny mystery, love, suffering, family, and the travails of identity are imaginatively explored. Michael Newton's Introduction and notes provide illuminating contextual and biographical information about the authors and the development of the literary fairy tale. A selection of original illustrations is also included.
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- ISBN: 9780198825791
- ISBN: 9780198825791
- ISBN: 019882579X
- Physical Description: xlii, 444 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.print
- Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2015
- General Note: "First published 2015 ... reissued 2018"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note: Introduction -- Note on the texts -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of the literary fairy tale -- Prologue. Rumpel-Stilts-kin / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm -- The princess and the peas / Hans Christian Andersen -- Victorian fairy tales. The story of the three bears / Robert Southey -- The king of the golden river / John Ruskin -- The rose and the ring / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The golden key / George MacDonald -- The little lame prince and his travelling cloak / Dinah Mulock Craik -- The wanderings of Arasmon / Mary de Morgan -- The first wife's wedding-ring / Juliana Horatia Ewing -- The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde -- Prince Prigio / Andrew Lang -- The queen who flew / Ford Madox Ford -- The story of the herons / Laurence Housman -- The reluctant dragon / Kenneth Grahame -- Melisande / E. Nesbit -- Dymchurch flit / Rudyard Kipling -- Appendix: What is a fairy tale? -- 'Introduction' to German popular stories / John Ruskin -- 'Preface' to Old-fashioned fairy tales / Juliana Horatia Ewing -- 'The fantastic imagination' / George MacDonald -- 'Introduction' to Gammer Grethel's fairy tales / Laurence Housman -- Explanatory notes.