The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale

The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale
Author: C. Sumpter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2008-07-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230227643

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This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.


The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: C. Sumpter
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-24 - Publisher: Springer

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This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fair
Victorian Fairy Tales
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Michael Stuart Newton
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre, to show the vibrancy of the fo
Science in Wonderland
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Melanie Keene
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Presents a new perspective on Victorian scientific discoveries and inventions; includes a range of Victorian scientific fairy-tales and stories; looks at why fa
Forbidden Journeys
Language: en
Pages: 381
Authors: Nina Auerbach
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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IntroductionPart One: Refashioning Fairy TalesThe Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Anne Thackeray RitchieBeauty and the Beast, Anne Thackeray RitchieThe Brown Bull
Ventures Into Childland
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: U. C. Knoepflmacher
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate