Folklore and the fantastic in nineteenth-century British fiction
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references 1. An introduction to folklore and the fantastic in nineteenth-century British literature -- 2. Victorian literary fairy tales : their folklore and function -- 3. Victorian fairy-tale fantasies : MacDonald's Fairyland and Barrie's Neverland -- 4. MacDonald's Lilith and Phantastes : in pursuit of the soul in Fairyland -- 5. James Hogg's use of legend : folk metaphysics and narrative authority -- 6. Ghosts, "grand ladies," "the gentry," and "good neighbors" : folkloric representations of the spirit world's intersection with class and racial tensions in Le Fanu -- 7. Robert Louis Stevenson : folklore and imperialism -- 8. William Carleton and William Sharp : the Celtic Renaissance and fantastic folklore -- 9. Conclusion : second sight The author argues that the tension between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folklore fiction |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 235 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780754682615 0754682617 |