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Description

1. 217 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture deals with the way in which natural history was connected to the world of fairies and highlights how shifts in the understanding of natural history, especially after 1859, had a significant impact on fairy stories and Victorian experiments with the literary fairy tale. By exploring the interaction between scientific and literary fields, this book shows the ways in which natural knowledge was shaped and disseminated in Victorian culture and illuminates cultural practices through which new representations of nature and the natural world were popularised. This original approach to Victorian culture, blending studies of fictional and non-fictional narratives, examines therefore a part of the history of the mediation of knowledge about nature in the Victorian period and points out how the mediation of this new knowledge contributed to the Victorians' awareness of environmental issues"--

Series statement

1. Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Subject

1. Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea 1956-
2. 1800-1899
3. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
4. Literature and science > England > History > 19th century
5. Fairy tales > England > History and criticism
6. Natural history in literature
7. Fairies in literature
8. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
9. LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
10. Natural History > history
11. English literature
12. Fairy tales
13. Intellectual life
14. Literature and science
15. Natural history in literature
16. England > Intellectual life > 19th century

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Introduction 1. From The Wonders of Nature to the Wonders of Evolution: Charles Kingsley's Nursery Fairies 2. 'How Are You To Enter The Fairy-Land of Science?': The Wonders of The Natural World in Arabella Buckley's Popular Science Works For Children 3. The Mechanization of Feelings: Mary de Morgan's Toy Princess 4. Nature Under Glass: Victorian Cinderellas, Magic and Metamorphosis 5. Nature Exposed: Charting the Wild Body in Little Red Riding Hood 6. Nature and the Natural World in Mary Louisa Molesworth's Christmas-Tree Land 7. Edith Nesbit's Fairies and Freaks of Nature: Environmental Consciousness in Five Children and It Epilogue Index.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographcal references (pages 195-210) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain